Hero Worship Quotes

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I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for

I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was . I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.

Christopher Hitchens

Food Music Books Literature Hunger Cults Kim Il Sung North Korea Kim Jong Il Newspapers Hero Worship Airports Cinema Manchuria

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light.

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Love Admiration Superiority Horses Hero Worship Riding

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in f

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

Christopher Hitchens

Politics Children Fairies Hero Worship John F Kennedy Kennedy Family Puerility Robert Dallek Robert F Kennedy Senility