Cult Quotes - Page 10

• At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

  Rick Ross

  Choices, Groups, Lasts

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• I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.

  Howard Stern

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Talking, People, Film

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.

  Conor Oberst

  Littles, Pluck, Creeps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, like, there's songs like "Valerie" and "Bang Bang Bang" that I was so proud of. And, you know, the level of success that they had - if they were little cult hits meant that, you know, I could sellout Webster Hall or Williamsburg Musical Hall or the El Rey theater in LA. Like, that was having made it to me. So the thought of having a number one song in my own career, like, never even registered.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Careers, Numbers

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Beautiful, Character, Men

  "State of Humbug". Interview with Bernand Chapin, spectator.org. January 25, 2008.

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• I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

  Annie E. Clark

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Mean, Levels, Taste

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Vision, Intellectual, Way

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1989). “Bulletin”

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• The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult.... Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Names, Giving

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• The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Hands, Order

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• Which is why I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and ladies, he's single!

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Children, Law

  "Bill Maher: Pope ‘Used to be a Nazi’; Compares Church to Cult, Bear Stearns". www.newsbusters.org. April 14, 2008.

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• Write a paper promising salvation, make it a "structured" something or a "virtual" something, or "abstract," "distributed" or "higher-order" or "applicative" and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Writing, Order, Paper

  "My hopes of computing science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. April 1979.

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• I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Data, Shoes

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• There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

  Tupac Shakur

  Volleyball, Religious, Sex

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• Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

  Geraldine James

  Animal, Japan, Hot

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• I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.

  Danny Baker

  Hate, Games, Joy

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• Nobody has a bigger cult than Warren Buffett.

  Michael Eisner

  Warren Buffet, Bigger, Buffett

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• A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

  Bruce Campbell

  Alternatives, Classic, Audience

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2009.

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• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

  Octavio Paz

  Views, Civilization, Differences

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• The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

  Anais Nin

  Artist, Men, Ivory Tower

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• The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Educational, Teaching, Men

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• Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

  Janice Erlbaum

  Eye, Perfect, Details

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• When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

  J. Gordon Melton

  Religious, Groups, Use

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• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Idols, Smell

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