Cult Quotes

• The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Individual
  • Lives

• The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • Great
  • Live
  • Muse

• A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

  

  Martin Mull
  • People
  • Way
  • Nice

• Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • People
  • Together
  • Marriage

• The word “cult” comes from the Latin phrase cultus deorum, which literally means “the care of the gods.” A cultic act is any ritualized practice that is done out of reverence to or worship of the gods. Such activities lay at the heart of pagan religions. Doctrines and ethics did not.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Heart
  • Gods
  • Religions

• When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Editor

• There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Lying
  • Level
  • Cult

• I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.

  

  P. J. Soles
  • Happy
  • Generation
  • Films

• It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Political
  • Sense
  • Categories

• Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.

  

  Homer
  • Support
  • My Family
  • Underground

• The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or state-appointed priests, or rectangular departements, or the cult of the Supreme Being.

  

  Alan Ryan
  • Accept
  • Priests
  • Cult

• And the greatest praise to India is this: not only are her people beautiful; not only are her daily life and cult beautiful; but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• 'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and the pistol. By 'Revolution' we mean that the present order of things, which is based on manifest injustice, must change.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Mean
  • Present
  • Revolution

• I formed a band called Atomic Rooster. The Atomic Rooster was sort of an underground cult band, sort of psychedelic. We did very well.

  

  Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer Asia
  • Band
  • Wells
  • Psychedelic

• Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Law
  • Personality
  • Russia

• The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Language
  • Birth
  • Sociology

• Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Personality
  • Company
  • Industry

• I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Littles
  • Creeps
  • Ripe

• He's a cult hero over here for doing it.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Hero
  • Here
  • Cult

• The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Theology
  • Cult
  • Doublethink

• It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Chinese
  • Revolutions
  • Father figure

• I'd like to build up a cult and lead them all to a mass suicide.

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Build
  • Cult
  • Mass Suicide

• The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.

  

  Anastas Mikoyan
  • Truth
  • Leadership
  • Proletarian

• Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Cult
  • Martyrdom

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