“But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could… — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship,… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“For River to discover himself in Rimbaud's life and Miller's prose was simultaneously self-aggrandizing and self-pitying. Tellingly, he was more interested in… — Gavin Edwards Copy Share Image
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Especially to be avoided is approaching Kant's life in a spirit of hero worship or hagiography -- as though our interest in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William… — Harry S.N. Greene Copy Share Image
At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
