“ICONOCLAST, n. A breaker of idols, the worshipers whereof are imperfectly gratified by the performance, and most strenuously protest that he unbuildeth but doth not reedify, that he pulleth down but pileth not up. For the poor things would have other idols in place of those he thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth. But the iconoclast saith: "Ye shall have none at all, for ye need them not; and if the rebuilder fooleth round hereabout, behold I will depress the head of him and sit thereon till he squawk it."”
Ambrose Bierce
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
Albert Einstein
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“'Idol' has performed better than we expected against the Olympics, but we never took the Olympics into consideration. 'Idol' has momentum all by itself.”
Preston Beckman
“The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood”
George Bernard Shaw
“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols”
John Calvin
“Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes”
Mark Twain
