Cult Quotes - Page 7

• I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

  Girl Talk

  Party, Rocks, Play

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, Civilization, Enemy

  "Authors take Sides on the Spanish War". 1937.

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• Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

  Edward Abbey

  Smell, Taste, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Vineyards

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.

  George Carlin

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Hero, Age, Giants

  Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.177, Random House

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• Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Blood, Long, People

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Well cult is a word you would never say in Hollywood. In any film business, if you're trying to get your next film made, you would never say, "Oh, my last film was a cult film." I'd say, "Oh great, well I hope this one isn't!"

  John Waters

  Trying, Lasts, Next

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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

  Cult Of Personality, People, Giving

  "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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• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Swings, Ideas

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• This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress, Age, Minorities

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• The past is not what it was.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Past, Progress

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• For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

  Michelle Forbes

  Years, People, Film

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• This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.

  Jane Campion

  Growing Up, Fall, Ethos

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• The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

  Shenae Grimes

  Fun, Thinking, Classic

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• I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit.

  Kevin McKidd

  Dog, Years, Soldier

  "Kevin McKidd Talks About 'Bunraku'". Interview with Rebecca Murray, www.kevinmckiddonline.com.

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• In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Buddhism, Our World

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• 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

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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, Cult Of Personality, Domes

  "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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• The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Light, Ideas

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• I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

  Keith Rabois

  Office Space, Believe, People

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• Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

  Johnny Hart

  Religious, Fear, Atheism

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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.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Self, Ideas

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• It does make a broader point which is the fight against Islamist terror is not just one that we can wage by the police and border control. It needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognize they have a role to play, we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult.

  David Cameron

  School, Fighting, College

  "Authorities scramble to find teen girls before they join ISIS" by Holly Yan and Nima Elbagir, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2015.

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• When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

  Sean Durkin

  People, Knows, Left

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

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