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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. -- Theodor Adorno
And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God. -- Jamey Johnson
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
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. -- Hans Hofmann
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
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. -- Dennis Prager
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. -- Hu Shih
The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple. -- Charles Taze Russell
Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation. -- Herbert Marcuse
To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit. -- Hans Hofmann
The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion. -- Pierre de Coubertin
The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed. -- Orson Welles
'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed. -- Orson Welles
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation. -- Radhanath Swami
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. -- Robert M. Pirsig
A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people. -- Ashton Kutcher
Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. -- Anne Bancroft
There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst thing you can do. You kind of have to face it head on. -- Christopher Poole
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency. -- Bocafloja
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. -- Vladimir Lenin
It's very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party. Instead, it started to become this electronic lifestyle which also involved the glorification of technology. -- Thomas Bangalter
The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God. -- Elaine Pagels
In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture. -- Amadeo Bordiga
To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God. -- Philip Schaff
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. -- Carl Sagan
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. -- C. J. Mahaney
The dangerous glorification of the nation state, and the baiting of minorities that goes along with it, releases an anti-democratic energy. -- Martin Schulz
The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit. -- D. H. Lawrence
That opinion that personal holiness is unnecessary to final glorification is in direct opposition to every dictate of reason; to every declaration of Scripture. -- Augustus Toplady
The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity. -- Criss Jami
I feel that as women we've allowed ourselves to be deluded by certain ideas that hold us back, such as the over-glorification of masculine consciousness. -- Marianne Williamson
God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification -- Michel de Montaigne
This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error. -- Bernardine Dohrn
It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live. -- Euripides
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt. -- Marlene Dumas
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men. -- Steven Pinker

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