Cult famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
-- Bruce Campbell -
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 -
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.
-- Dennis Cooper -
There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
-- Gary Numan -
The witches do not know the origin of their cult.
-- Gerald Gardner -
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force.
-- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau -
Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.
-- Joe Rogan -
The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
-- Julien Benda -
I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
-- Kathleen Hanna -
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
-- Kurt Russell -
I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!
-- Leighton Meester -
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
-- Max Weber -
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.
-- Paul Buchheit -
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 -
The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.
-- Robert M. Sapolsky -
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
-- Sean Durkin -
As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.
-- Troy Duffy -
Maybe radicalization is much more of a problem these days than cult participation. They're pretty close to each other. But in order to understand why someone would sign onto something like this, you have to see the good.
-- Bruce Miller -
Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.
-- Nick Laird -
I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a larger group - and how they can sneak up on you.
-- Danzy Senna -
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 -
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 -
[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
