False Idol Quotes

I have felt uncomfortable having people say, "You're my idol," because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.

I am no one's role model.

… a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined..

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock.

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

We all idolize sports figures, and we see them fall from grace. You just truly never know anybody anymore.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can't respond, you go under.

When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

The word "superstar" is an ilusion

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

None of us are made to be worshipped, and when we take that in, we get sick.