Uncritical Adoration Quotes

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

Happily we do not idolize our public men.

Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things - none of them good.

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.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.

There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.

It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it looks great.

When the press falls in love, they fall in love hard.

I discourage a cult of personality.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.