Blind Admiration Quotes

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him

I was truly under Hitler's spell, that cannot be denied. I was impressed with him from the moment I first met him, in 1932. He had terrific power, especially in his eyes.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.

Hitler is a very great man, like an inspired religious leader—and as such rather fanatical—but not scheming, not selfish, not greedy for power, but a mystic, a visionary who really wants the best for his country …

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

As a parent, you're never wrong in your children's eyes.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Every one praises his own saint.

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

I don't believe in hero worship.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.

I just think everything my kids do is fabulous.

It breaks my heart that some of my fans think that because they love me and they idolize me, they have to be just like me and dress like me and act like me.

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.