Cult Of Personality Quotes

• A cult is a religion with no political power.

  Tom Wolfe

  Religious, Philosophy, Power

  In Our Time ch. 2 (1980) See Feibleman 1

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• Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

  Bell Hooks

  Ideas, Consumers, Capitalist

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.227, Routledge

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• 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

  Russia, Law, Violation

  "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Quality, Heroism

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• I discourage a cult of personality.

  Newt Gingrich

  Personality, Discouraging, Cult

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• 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.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Long, Irreplaceable

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• I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Strong, Dad

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• The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

  Paul Krugman

  Campaigns, Becoming, Obama Campaign

  "Hate Springs Eternal". www.nytimes.com. February 11, 2008.

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• Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

  John Hodgman

  People, Giving, Massachusetts

  "INTERVIEW Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Able, Firsts

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• By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

  John Hodgman

  Hurt, Domes, Massachusetts

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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