Quotes About Cult

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Whenever one of these groups is busted for possession of a drug, though, the newspapers generally headline the event, "Manson-style cult raided," and ma and pa in the suburbs shiver with images of knives glittering in their heads.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.

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.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

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.

After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

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

Polyfragmented Dissociative Identity Disorder A form of DID that often involves over one hundred DID personality states and is likely to be the result of cult abuse or some other form of extreme sadistic abuse that extends over a long period and often involves multiple perpetrators.

The Houdan hen was never drawn into the cult of Sredni Vashtar. Conradin had long ago settled that she was an Anabaptist

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

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.

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.

I don't like these commercial films I do. I'd far prefer to do more artistic films, more cult films.

I think NBC bought SCTV because it was developing a nice cult feel.

The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

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.

America had not yet become Reagan's America. Not yet. Reagan's America would embrace an almost official cult of optimism—the belief that America could do no wrong. Or, to put it another way, that if America did it, it was by definition not wrong. That would come later. But signs were already pointing in that direction.

All the heroes had crew cuts, platinum-blond wives and drove Corvettes. The media was devoted to this cult of innocence.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

What is a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.