Savior Complex Quotes

I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth.

At times of general malaise and social breakdown, it is not uncommon for … movements to arise to replace lost hopes by idle dreams: dreams of a savior who will lead us from bondage …. Some may yearn for a lost golden age, or succumb to the blandishments of the new Messiahs who come to the fore at such moments.

I am not a savior.

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people

The whole narrative of the 'Return to the Land' was completely PR spin. Fans ate it up because it painted LeBron as the hero coming back to save Cleveland from obscurity.

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

The anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.

I can't have discussions about it anymore, I just can't. When someone asks me if I've found Jesus, I say, 'Yeah, I saw him at a Nirvana concert a couple of years ago.' It's like, Jesus has got things to do, he's got a ten o'clock. He's not going to fix things for me, I have to fix things for myself, so I try and have a sense of humor about it and nobody finds my humor very amusing. We've just got to lighten up on the savior bit, folks. You know, get off the cross, we need the wood.

Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

We're all guilty of slacktivism, or of feeling like a savior for taking two seconds of your day to think about someone else.

It's impossible for anyone to meet the expectation of being the savior of the world.

so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching." "not catching enough

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that you’re going to be the one that saves him - like the Oasis song.

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me