Cult 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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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

  Frank Zappa

  Atheist, Real, Differences

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Political, Mind

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• A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Anarchy, Mental Illness, Delusion

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• There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Mean, Democracies Have

  "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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• The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Men, Political, Atheism

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Life, War

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Evil, Way, Weakness

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• If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

  Steve Almond

  Fighting, Want, Form

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One person's religion is another person's cult.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Persons

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• I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

  Rita Rudner

  Dog, Witty, Religious

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• I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Government, Personality

  "Thatcher warns of 'dictatorship'". www.cnn.com. June 1, 2001.

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• The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

  Rick Ross

  Education, Effort, Groups

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not” “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can” “It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity” “Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Real, Ignorance

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• If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Common Sense

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

  Gary Numan

  Lying, Levels, Wells

  "Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation" by Angus Batey, Bob Stanley, Dave Simpson, Paul Lester, Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most interesting of all the cults I studied.

  Danzy Senna

  School, Interesting, Most Interesting

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• Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Individuality, Politics, Individualism

  Speech to secret session of Twentieth Congress of Communist Party, 25 Feb. 1956.

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

  Martin Mull

  Nice, People, Way

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• Satan never gets very far from the Bible. And every one of the cults, even Satanism, uses the Bible.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Use, Satan, Satanism

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• Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

  Max Lerner

  Congratulations, Men, Best Effort

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• I discourage a cult of personality.

  Newt Gingrich

  Cult Of Personality, Personality, Discouraging

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Behaviour, Attention

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