Cult Quotes - Page 2

• anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Change, Spiritual, Purpose

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• I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jesus, Office, Followers

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• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Philosophy, Media, People

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• The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Pride, Giving

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• This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

  David Brooks

  Hate, Scary, Want

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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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• The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.

  Pope Francis

  Goal, Heartless, Golden

  Pope Francis' Address to the New Non-Resident Ambassadors to the Holy See: Kyrgyzstan, Antigua and Barbuda, Luxembourg and Botswana, w2.vatican.va. May 16, 2013.

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• The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Alcoholics Anonymous, Warlocks

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• Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Movie, Kissing, Long

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• Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

  Keith Henson

  Military, Movement, Social

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• It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

  Amy Sedaris

  Quirky, Rating, Shows

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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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• Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Thinking, Law

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• If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

  Dustin Diamond

  Rocks, Play, People

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• You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Church, Looks, Way

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• Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

  Nick Laird

  Christianity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

  Keith Henson

  Cards, Cost, Credit

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• But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

  Paul Samuelson

  Boys, Libertarian, Trouble

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• It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.

  Craig Reucassel

  Suicide, Islamic, Movement

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• The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

  George Grosz

  Personality, Individuality, Genius

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Confusion, Delight, Ends

  Collected Poems preface (1939)

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• People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

  Bruce Sterling

  Success, Jobs, People

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• When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

  Rick Ross

  Effort, May, Stage

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• Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

  Mark Goddard

  Space, Television, World

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• I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

  Kurt Russell

  Knack, Goes On, Seems

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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