Cult Quotes
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Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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The witches do not know the origin of their cult.
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The whole world is a personality cult.
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The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.
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I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
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I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse
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Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?
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Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.
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It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular personality, as opposed to a more anonymous group of people playing music. It's more about can I dress this person up? Are they going to look pretty? I feel like the cult of personality is back, for sure.
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.
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Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
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Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
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The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.
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I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.
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Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.
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Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.
