Alanis Morissette

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Canadian Musician

Ann Nocenti

The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

American Journalist

Thomas Mallon

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.

American Novelist

Janet Evanovich

We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.

American Writer

Monica Ali

I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.

British Writer

Matt Taibbi

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

American Author

David Whyte

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

English Poet

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

American Leader

Zbigniew Brzezinski

You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.

American Politician

Leonard Cohen

Canadian Singer

Understand the historical figure considered a 'messiah' in various cultures to comprehend its significance.

Historical Context

'Messianic' often indicates a divine or prophetic quality beyond just leadership or heroism.

Religious Nuance

Use with care, as 'messianic' can carry deep religious and cultural significance.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Messianic' conveys intensity, suggesting an extraordinary level of dedication or enthusiasm.

Intensity of Devotion

Be mindful that 'messianic' may imply an almost obsessive, over-the-top level of passion.

Potential Exaggeration

In modern usage, 'messianic' can apply to secular enthusiasm not linked to religion.

Non-Religious Context

 of students who were protesting a military dictatorship, which has finally ended. So it wasn't just me, there was a whole generation of us. But what I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures,

Chris Abani on the...

 from the dead after three days so Gabriel is speaking to this person and he is telling him commanding him actually in three days leave resurrect Canole is perhaps the world's leading expert on messianic figures from the

The Messiah Before...

 would take a miracle he said bono wouldn't that be a good use of your messianic complex so yeah and I thought let's go even further let's go been 25 years let's go back before