Cult Quotes - Page 12

• When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

  Rajneesh

  Dogma, Destroying, Creeds

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• A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

  Max Weber

  Clubs, Ethics, Stock Exchange

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• I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.

  Pete Holmes

  Stupid, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

  Pat Conroy

  South Carolina, States, Carolina

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.61, Nan A. Talese

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

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Doe, Existence

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.11, Vintage

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• A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated Mithras' primeval act. The initiate was baptized in its blood, partaking of its life-giving properties. It may be noted that this part of the ceremonial closely resembled the ritual of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Asia Minor, which had been brought to Rome three centuries before Christ.

  Ninian Smart

  Mother, Baptized In, Rome

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• Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

  Lou Gerstner

  Culture, Fixing, Management

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• Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Beautiful, Order, Tea

  Andrew Forbes, David Henley, Okakura Kakuzo “The Illustrated Book of Tea”

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• You mark my words: Whenever a cult attacks Christianity, the first place they're going to go is they're going to attack the deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; is that not true? They are going to attack His deity. Throughout 2000 years of Christian history, we have had to build walls to keep them out. We have had to fight, we have had to amass arms, we have had to do apologetics, we have had to do it all. It is our purpose and our responsibility to proclaim that Jesus Christ is God.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Jesus, Wall

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• The worst thing you can do is make a cult movie. That means you got three great reviews and nobody went. An art film means it got a lot of good reviews and nobody went. There is no such thing as a counter culture now. What used to be considered that is commercial now.

  John Waters

  Art, Mean, Counter Culture

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• There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else.

  Stephen King

  Book, Cat, People

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• I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

  Amanda Harlech

  Fashion, Party, Artist

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• Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof that Islam is false. But logic has its limitation. Brainwashed people dismiss logic and pride themselves in their blind faith. Psychological warfare is extremely powerful. The Muslim bravado must be destroyed by humiliations and ridicule.

  Ali Sina

  Powerful, Pride, Attachment

  Source: myislam.dk

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• A society that is not founded on morality falls apart and becomes easy prey to puritan cults such as Islam that on the surface, promote family values and morality.

  Ali Sina

  Fall, Islam, Morality

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Scotch, Phones, Guy

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• Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

  Tom Robbins

  Hands, Zippers, Revolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.299, Bantam

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• Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Self, Names

  "Indian Spirituality and Life - 1" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1919.

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• The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set of dogmas, one cult, one system of ceremonies, one ecclesiastical ordinance, one array of prohibitions and injunctions which all minds must accept on peril of persecution by men and spiritual rejection or eternal punishment by God, that grotesque creation of human unreason which has been the parent of so much intolerance, cruelty and obscurantism and aggressive fanaticism, has never been able to take firm hold of the Indian mentality.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Men, Ideas

  "A Defense of Indian Culture". Essay by Sri Aurobindo, as quoted in Sisirkumar Mitra "The Vision of India", 1947.

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• When did atheists become so evangelical? I mean, if you don't believe something to be true, wouldn't you just ignore it? That's certainly what I do. Whether it's leprechauns or a congressional debt reduction plan - if I'm convinced it's fiction, I simply put it out of my mind. Not the atheists. They are obsessed with faith and religious practice. Their identities and their works are one big reaction to that which they hate. No longer content to simply dismiss God and those who follow in Him, the New Atheists have created a cult of unbelief.

  Laura Ingraham

  Religious, Atheist, Hate

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• I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Realistic

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• I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

  Adam Ant

  Thinking, Safe, Infamous

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• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Numbers, France, Cuisine

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• I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.

  Creed Bratton

  Fun, Numbers, Leader

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• 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

  Religious, Writing, Editors

  "This is how it feels to me" by Zadie Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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• 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

  Artist, Disease, Hips

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