Kate Crawford

Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from all-night coding and caffeine abuse, and finally, the grand finale: immense wealth and secular sainthood. Let's call it the Jobs Narrative.

Australian Writer

Gerald R. Ford

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

American President

David Fahrenthold

The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into a story, the word is usually forwarded to top editors, who consider it with the gravity and speed that the Vatican applies to candidates for sainthood.

American Journalist

K'naan

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

Somali Musician

Peter Ackroyd

His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.

British Author

Dick Morris

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.

American Author

George Orwell

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Jonathan Haidt

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

American Psychologist

Bari Weiss

Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane.

American Editor

Pamela Hansford Johnson

English Critic

Understanding 'sainthood' requires knowledge of religious and cultural contexts where saints are revered.

Cultural Significance

'Sainthood' can be used metaphorically to describe someone with exceptional goodness or patience.

Idiomatic Usage

Distinguish between being a saint (literal) and saint-like qualities (figurative).

Literal vs. Figurative

Sainthood involves official religious ceremonies usually conducted by a major church authority.

Ceremonial Process

'Sainthood' often requires documented miracles attributed to the candidate after their death.

Evidence of Miracles

Use modern examples of canonized saints for current cultural relevance of sainthood.

Contemporary Examples

 that it was some of your very wounding experiences in a religious life that, with a zigzag, have led to the Charter for Compassion. Compassion can't be reduced to sainthood