The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Laudy laud! is my new phrase for the hero worship that butters the human bread.” — Linda Robinson Copy Share Image
“A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.” — Matt McCook Copy Share Image
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It may be a crush, or hero worship (...), it may not be love, but if you've never felt anything stronger, how… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“Thing is, what does a hero look like these days? Muscles and lycra? Life isn’t a contest of strength anymore. Jobs, banks,… — Adam Baker Copy Share Image
“For hero-worship often defeats its own ends; the boy who "cannot tell a lie," the boy who kept his finger in the… — Leon Ma. Guerrero 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
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else.… — Kevin Hearne 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
“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
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown… — Thomas Carlyle 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
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's… — Zoë Marriott 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
“What are you two doing?” Her uncle’s teasing voice came into the room before he did. But his voice was the second… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude… — Thomas Carlyle 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
“They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the… — Nancy Mitford 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
The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship… — Mark Emmert 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
![“I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's why I started to... have feeling for you. You seemed like a dream. [...] But that's just infatuation. Hero worship. It's not real. I've learned a lot about love in these last…” quote by Zoë Marriott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/929/zo-marriott-24092_darkness_i-ve-been-in-darkness-nearly-all-my-life_2151221.jpg)
