Aung San Quotes

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I don't believe in hero worship.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.

I don't really idolize artists.

Society is founded on hero-worship.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

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.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

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

What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.

Children ran up to me shouting, 'Columbo!' At first, it gave me great pleasure, but later, I said to myself that those children should have had their own heroes instead of admiring a cop from Los Angeles.

I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

Some people probably think me telling Godard's story is blasphemy. My friends were worried. But he's not my hero or my god. Godard is like the leader of a sect, and I'm an agnostic.

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

I respect Dev saab greatly.