heroes and hero-worship quotes

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I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers.
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people--the ...
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sens ...
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people: we are laying up for ourselves the pleasure of lat ...
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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