Quotes with idols

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  • William Hazlitt Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Breckin Meyer My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.
    Breckin Meyer
    American actor, writer, producer, and drummer (1974 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Barbara Ward The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay, and can be reasonably sure that press and camera will report their exact dimensions.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • George Bernard Shaw The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. B. King We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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