Cult Quotes - Page 6

• 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”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

  John Cowper Powys

  Mother, Spiritual, People

  5 Copy quote

• Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Roots, Hatred, Selfless

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.78, Penguin Books India

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason - his stuff is fun to read... It's... filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation... This book is the 'work' of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Fun, Book, Play

  5 Copy quote

• The Goat of Mendez is the god of the witches. (Mendez is another spelling of Mendes, a city of ancient Egypt where fertility worship - Baal worship -- was practiced). Masons admit readily that Baphomet is a pagan fertility god and, more importantly, that Freemasonry is a fertility cult religion. At any rate, this mockery of Jesus is a satanic symbol and figures prominently in Satan worship.

  Kerr Cuhulain

  Jesus, Egypt, Cities

  6 Copy quote

• I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

  Jim Woodring

  Hero, Artist, Order

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Enron was becoming a virtual cult of creativity, often placing swagger over substance. New ideas were celebrated for their newness, for their potential; tried and true businesses like the pipelines were almost derided.

  Kurt Eichenwald

  Creativity, Ideas, Swagger

  Kurt Eichenwald (2005). “Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story”, p.258, Broadway Books

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

  Brice Marden

  Men, Priests, Painter

  Brice Marden (1978). “Brice Marden: Recent Paintings and Drawings : [catalogue of an Exhibition], September 23-21 October 1978, The Pace Gallery, New York”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.

  Rakesh Khurana

  Differences, Leader, Religious Cults

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  People, Political, Categories

  6 Copy quote

• Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

  Dennis Cooper

  Condescending, Term

  8 Copy quote

• I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.

  Markus Zusak

  Mother, Book, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

  Sean Durkin

  Religious, Prayer, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• '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, Order, Doe

  Bhagat Singh, Bhagat (2010). “WOF : Bhagat Singh”, p.42, Penguin Books India

  454 Copy quote

  Show source

• The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives - their very being - are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is - and should be - dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Christian, Believe, Views

  Jacob G. Hornberger (1997). “The tyranny of gun control”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

  Chris Lilley

  Summer, Ideas, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the water now I'll meet three generations of surfers, male and female, everyone sporting a different craft. I started surfing in the 60s and I can tell you it's infinitely more diverse. It might be more crowded but it's also more interesting.

  Tim Winton

  Water, Interesting, Surfing

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.

  Joan Rivers

  Fashion, Ak 47, Leisure

  Joan Rivers (2014). “Diary of a Mad Diva”, p.71, Penguin

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.

  Julius Evola

  Strong, Sex, Vanity

  139 Copy quote

• Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Race, People, Tolerance

  6 Copy quote

• Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

  John Roecker

  Friday, Sex, Keys

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

  Peter York

  People, Waking, Study

  5 Copy quote

• This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say, the wider canvas - because they simply don't know about its existence or they don't know how it operates.

  Peter York

  People, Insulting, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of that family. The cult was handed down from father to son, from generation to generation, and could not be lost without condemning the whole series of ancestors to eternal misery.

  Helen Bosanquet

  Father, Son, Peculiar

  4 Copy quote