Quotes with glorification

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• A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

  Andrew Cohen
  American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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• All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
  Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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• In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.

  Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930

  Sinclair Lewis
  American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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• In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

  Arthur Henderson
  British Labour politician
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• Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  Beck
  American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-glorification
• justification
• dictatorship
• totalitarian
• entertainer
• everything

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