Hero Worship Quotes - Page 2

• I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else. Vampires inspire screams, not squees. Involuntary urination is common, I grant, but it properly flows from a sense of terror, not an ecstatic sense of hero worship.

  Kevin Hearne

  Hero, Inspire, Vampire

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three”, p.93, Del Rey

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

  Irwin Edman

  Hero, Patterns, Worship

  7 Copy quote

• Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship. And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It's much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It's an ongoing process to turn the tide.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Hero, Men

  4 Copy quote

• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Greatness, History

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Struggle, Revolution, Heroic

  "Revolution" by Eugene V. Debs in "New York Worker", www.marxists.org. April 27, 1907.

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hero, Irony, Worship

  "Christopher Hitchens: my hero of 2010" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

  Terry Southern

  Hero, Hypocrisy, Abuse

  5 Copy quote

• The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

  Mark Emmert

  Hero, Winning, Balance

  7 Copy quote

• I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

  Aung San

  Hero, Believe, Men

  Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Hero, Men, Average

  7 Copy quote

• Society is founded on hero-worship.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hero, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Heroes and Hero-worship”, p.15

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

  Simon Winchester

  Hero, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• I don't believe in hero worship.

  Bobby Fischer

  Believe, Hero, Worship

  6 Copy quote

• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Hero, Reality

  5 Copy quote

• If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Hero, Self, Giving

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Swim, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.96, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Fire, Clouds

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a sucker for hero worship.

  Ronald Reagan

  Hero, Worship, Sucker

  4 Copy quote

• She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Crush, Horse, Hero

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.271, Open Road Media

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Hero, Science, Suffering

  4 Copy quote

• I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Communication, Hero

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Hero, Home

  4 Copy quote

• Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

  Lucy Lawless

  Growing Up, Real, Hero

  "Visiting Warriors - Xena and Hercules Flex Their Muscles at NATPE". The Times-Picayune, January 14, 1997.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by all young and brave souls, who must win their way through hero-worship to the worship of Him who is the King and Lord of heroes.

  Thomas Hughes

  Kings, Lying, Hero

  Thomas Hughes (2011). “Tom Brown's School Days”, p.334, The Floating Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source