Deification Quotes

#1. 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Nolan Bushnell

#2. Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

Anna Louise Strong

#3. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.

Leonard Gross

#4. Father argued that society as a whole must come to be organized on a different basis than greed, for while material interests gained somewhat by the institutionalized deification of pure selfishness, ordinary men and women lost everything by it.

Russell Banks

#5. There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. We have come to a political deification of Mammon.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. Better could the stem of a rose support a marble bust than the mind of man bear the false infinity of his own deification.

Fulton J. Sheen

#8. Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.

Maximus The Confessor

#9. James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Jon Landau

#10. An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

Joseph Addison

#11. Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

Rory Stewart

#12. Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.

Neil Postman

#13. Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

#14. This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery.

Will Leitch

#15. It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Theodore Roosevelt

#16. Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. Grumble is the god of henchmen and minions. Once a former lackey himself, after his deification he chose to look over his own people rather than putting on airs.

Drew Hayes

#18. They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But everytime she laughs I'm the one who falls in love

Bob Marley

#19. Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Tom Stoppard

#20. My goal has always been to be a working actor.

Bryan Cranston

#21. [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. So I guess you are going to be over in a few minutes," she said more as a statement than a question.

Quinn Loftis

#23. North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

Rebecca Harding Davis

#24. Cast yourself upon, abandon yourself to this Christ who lived that life of utter surrender to God that He might prepare a new nature which He could impart to you and in which He might make you like Himself.

Andrew Murray

#25. There's always a sunrise and always a sunset and it's up to you to choose to be there for it,' said my mother. 'Put yourself in the way of beauty.

Cheryl Strayed

#26. There is no such thing as the United Nations.

John Bolton

#27. Also by Nadine Dorries

Nadine Dorries