Cutuli Cult Quotes

The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality ~ Jung Chang

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

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult. ~ Jerome Flynn

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image. ~ Bill Maher

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

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny. ~ Roger Scruton

To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics ... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well. ~ Michael Beck

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

When you're in your mid-thirties, the cult of people who have children around you all want you in their cult, and they constantly ask you, 'So when are you going to have a baby?' ~ Jenny Lewis

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

I'm a cult writer now. I have a cult readership. ~ Michael Gruber

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

A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard. ~ Caitlin Doughty

I call myself the assistant cult leader. ~ Charlie Munger

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds. ~ Martin Freeman

The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader. ~ Rakesh Khurana

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders! ~ Leighton Meester

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards. ~ Keith Henson

I discourage a cult of personality. ~ Newt Gingrich

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive. ~ Rick Ross

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure. ~ Lou Reed

I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it. ~ Rachel Cusk

The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications. ~ Frederick Lenz

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them. ~ Philip Zimbardo

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all ~ Nikita Khrushchev

I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling. ~ Ron Barrier

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world. ~ Jane Badler

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

In a cult, you have two identities: your cult identity and your authentic self. Most of the time I operated from my cult identity, which was pliant, submissive and obedient. But when I was pushed to the point where it felt like my survival was at stake, my authentic self came to the fore. ~ Carolyn Jessop

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics. ~ Max Weber

Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett. ~ Michael Eisner

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it. ~ Gustave Flaubert

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.' ~ Troy Duffy

Breaking free is only the beginning. Then begins the painful process of reversing the indoctrination. The longer someone stays in a cult the harder it is for them to remember who they were before the cult took control of their mind. Or in the case of someone like me, a cult-born child, my entire personality was made and created by them. When I left I had no idea who I was. My whole existence, everything I thought I knew, had been a lie.

But it is the psychological aftermath of life in a cult that is all too often the silent killer. ~ Natacha Tormey

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult. ~ Stefan Molyneux

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow. ~ Robert Hughes

In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of. ~ Rick Ross

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were! ~ Pia Zadora

Anyone who has truly practiced a religion knows very well that it is [the set of regularly repeated actions that make up the cult] that stimulates the feelings of joy, inner peace, serenity, and enthusiasm that, for the faithful, stand as experimental proof of their beliefs. The cult is not merely a system of signs by which the faith is outwardly expressed; it is the sum total of means by which that faith is created and recreated periodically. Whether the cult consists of physical operations or mental ones, it is always the cult that is efficacious. ~ Emile Durkheim

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

The cult of military obedience and the cult of weapons of mass destruction are the two great follies of the modern age. ~ Freeman Dyson

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. ~ Jacques Derrida

Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom. ~ Mason Cooley

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance. ~ Bono

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. ~ Bob Barton

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture. ~ Harry Hooton

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 Bruce

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

The cult of the madman is also always the cult of him who is rich in vitality, and who is a powerful man. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself. ~ Walter Salles

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion). ~ Charles Baudelaire

When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture. ~ Jan Shipps

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

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object ~ Ross Lovegrove

One man's cult is another man's religion. ~ Annie Parisse

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those. ~ Jessica Biel

I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life. ~ Bob Odenkirk

Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture. ~ Kenny Smith

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup ~ Frank Ocean

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

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't. ~ Paul Haggis

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him. ~ Constantine Karamanlis

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

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us ~ Octavio Paz

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans. ~ Liz Williams

One person's religion is another person's cult. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

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

When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. ~ Zadie Smith

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. ~ Luke Rhinehart

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image. ~ Mary Harron

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

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting. ~ Ian Astbury

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question. ~ Bill Keller

[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult. ~ Vito Acconci

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

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure? ~ Joss Whedon

Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult. ~ Frederick Lenz

It's interesting that gay men and young women have been the twin engines of the Bettie [Page] cult. ~ Mary Harron

For all his ego and mendacity, Moore is immensely popular. He's got an Oscar, more film awards than we can easily count, and a following whose blindest followers resemble cult members. Like a cult, the Moore movement shares the drive to recruit converts.... ~ David T. Hardy

I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad. ~ Martin Amis

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

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

Mother was just as glad to have me out of the house and harm's way. She did give me some advice. You can always tell a cult from a religion, she said, because a cult is just a set of rules that lets certain men get laid. ~ Karen Joy Fowler

The Supreme cult does not bear any relationship with the ordinary course of life. The physical body, after attainment of the Supreme Cult will remain as it was before. It will feel pleasure and pain as it used to do. One must be earning his honest livelihood. It is only possible for a man without the least tinge of desire that 'to see God is for the sake of seeing God' and 'to attain God is for the sake of attaining God' only." - Sri Jibankrishna ~ Jibankrishna

the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious orthodoxy historically outweighs onslaught by Satanists ~ Valerie Sinason

Seasons don't fear the Reaper, nor do the Sun, the Wind or the Rain.
We can be like they are.
Come on, baby, don't fear the Reaper. ~ Blue Oyster Cult

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease. ~ Jerry Saltz

I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely. ~ Jewel Staite

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

During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in. ~ Barton Gellman

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

Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially. ~ Frederick Lenz

The cult of self has become an addiction - feeding off the ego of self-glorification. The word cult encompasses many movements and ideas, but simply put, it describes a culture of alternative beliefs, fads, and trends, and tampers with just enough truth to knock many off balance. ~ Billy Graham

People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they made a decision of their own free will. ~ Wendy Hoffman

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion. ~ Richard Jeni

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

The National Rate of Unemployment is one of the most vicious euphemisms ever coined. ~ William Vickery, Canadian Nobel Laureate, The Cult Of Impotence, By Linda McQuaig

Our young people will learn more about the cult of militarism in this short and accurate book by Joel Andreas than they might learn in their first twelve years of schooling. ~ Blase Bonpane