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Quotes About Cult

What I didn't expect was 'VIP' becoming something of a cult and one of my biggest hits.
~ Dhanush
The global jihad movement ideology is a destructive religious cult. It is so un-Islamic that it is virtually anti-Islamic.
~ Malcolm Nance
I like CrossFit. I agree with a lot of their coaching tips and the foundation of functional movements and hard work. They embody all that stuff. But I also think there's a bit of a cult following within the CrossFit community, a bit of a fraternity, which obviously creates a bias and a little bit of a tunnel vision.
~ Roman Reigns
In Marxism there are always two ways at least of looking at anything and everything, and the reconciliation of these views is attained only by dialectic artificialities. The commonest device is to use, according to the needs of the moment, a word to which more than one meaning may be attached. With these words, which at the same time serve as political slogans to hypnotize the mass psyche, a cult suggestive of fetishism is carried on. The Marxist dialectic is essentially a word-fetishism.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The modern food and drug industry has converted a significant portion of the world's people to a new religion—a massive cult of pleasure seekers who consume coffee, cigarettes, soft drinks, candy, chocolate, alcohol, processed foods, fast foods, and concentrated dairy fat (cheese) in a self-indulgent orgy of destructive behavior.
~ Joel Fuhrman
Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute, came other Made in England rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all the music. I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of Beatlemania; it reminds me of how wrongly the word lover is used when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To call rock music, is an insult, likewise the language used in rock lyrics.
~ John Coleman
A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.
~ Caitlin Doughty
had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.
~ Donna Tartt
From the sound of it, had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.
~ Donna Tartt
but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.
~ Donna Tartt
there is nothing more dangerous to a cult than one who renounces the faith and embraces the other side, which is exactly what Democrat to Deplorable voters have bravely done.
~ Unknown
the Fascist chiefs we remember best were charismatic. Through one method or another, each established an emotional link to the crowd and, like the central figure in a cult, brought deep and often ugly feelings to the surface.
~ Madeleine K. Albright
Marge, when I join an underground cult I expect a little support from my family.
~ Homer
Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
~ Johnny Hart
I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.
~ Paul Lynde
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
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
~ Rita Rudner
Sadly, most of this civil religion's practitioners belong to Christian churches, which is precisely why Revelation is addressed to the seven churches (not to Babylon), to all Christians tempted by the civil cult.
~ Unknown
The conundrum was that conservative media saw Trump as its creature, while Trump saw himself as a star, a vaunted and valued product of all media, one climbing ever higher. It was a cult of personality, and he was the personality. He was the most famous man in the world. Everybody loved him—or ought to.
~ Michael Wolff
I was looking for...the mountain cult," he barks out at last. His throat is dry and his head aches. She laughs. "Yea, well. You found it. So that was a bloody stupid idea, wasn't it?
~ Naomi Alderman
Joy through suffering: this phrase (extracted from one of Beethoven's letters, where it actually referred to an uncomfortable coach journey) became the central motto of the Beethoven cult [..].
~ Unknown
The particular creature we love is never God's rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Democracy celebrates the cult of humanity on a pyramid of skulls.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.... It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
~ Okakura Kakuz?