Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship. — Robert Webb 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
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and… — Ram Charan Copy Share Image
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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
I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
“We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find… — Terry Givens Copy Share Image
Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the… — Simon Sebag Montefiore 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
“Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
It now seems to be quite a thing to pull down the mighty from their seats and roll them in the mire.… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“This kind of hero worship has been promoted by politicians and their complicit media since the middle of the last century. Once… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke 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
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
“Don’t make that mistake again,” he said in a voice so quiet it was barely audible. He looked as if all his… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“I see. And who is this author?” “Neil Fucking Gaiman.” “His second name is Fucking?” “No, Leif, that’s the honorary second name… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of… — B R Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“Bring Cecily home,” he said curtly. “I won’t have her at risk, even in the slightest way.” “I’ll take care of Cecily,”… — Diana Palmer 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
“Saint-worship is not the same as hero-worship; it is a much less dangerous thing than hero-worship. For hero-worship generally means the absorption… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
