“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.”
Oscar Wilde
“The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money”
Mark Twain
“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people . . .”
George Borrow
“It's more than mascot status. It's hero worship.”
David Young
“We're worshiping on this side and they worship inside.”
Tim White
