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• I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong, Government, Personality

  "Thatcher warns of 'dictatorship'". www.cnn.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Leader, Visionaries, Occupation

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• One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . . Many of the most dangerous cultic figures of our times have no such stabilizing context of tradition, lineage or transmission, but are self-proclaimed gurus who sway their followers through their charismatic talents. . . .

  John Welwood

  Teacher, Self, Discipline

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• Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Two, Everyday

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• White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.

  Ron Paul

  Strong, Unique, White

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• But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

  Alexei Sayle

  Party, Nuance, Belief

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• The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

  Frank Zappa

  Real, Differences, Determined

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• A large part of California is a sensual state. It has a huge range of geographical features and in addition to the deserts and the mountains and the huge coast line. The fact that we don't have harsh seasons, like they have in the East, means you can have convertible cars. There's more sunshine, per year here, and it affects people psychologically and physically. I think California has always been an attractive place for many, a lot of strange cults have been here over the years. Again, it's an experimental place.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Mean, Sunshine, Thinking

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

  Sean Penn

  Believe, Thinking, Talking

  "Sean Penn and Google's Green Chief on the Paris Climate Talks". Interview with Eric Roston and Brad Wieners, www.bloomberg.com. November 30, 2015.

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• Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right politics that involves a sort of narcissistic cult of superman action around the leader of the party.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Leader, Narcissistic

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• The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Enchantment, Paradise, Opinion

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

  Bill Maher

  Personality

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• Some right-wingers, especially those who think of the entire Islamic religion as a totalitarian death cult, would likewise get a crash-course in reality if they ever bothered to hang out in Iraq and meet actual Muslims.

  Michael Totten

  Islamic, Reality, Thinking

  "Lockdown". www.michaeltotten.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

  Hugh Laurie

  Father, Humility, Gold

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• A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

  H. G. Wells

  Religious, Men, People

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10332, Delphi Classics

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• To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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• California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Taken, California, Bed

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.2202, Delphi Classics

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• Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Matter, Making Money

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Men, Religion

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1964). “Complete Works: The First Complete and Authorised English Translation”

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• The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Way

  "Quentin Tarantino: ‘The Easiest Way to Kill a Cult Is to Make That Cult Accessible’" by Peter Caranicas, variety.com. December 11, 2013.

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• Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Individuality, Politics, Individualism

  Speech to secret session of Twentieth Congress of Communist Party, 25 Feb. 1956.

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Behaviour, Attention

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• The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Artist, Culture, Talent

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 65, 1976.

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