Jerome Flynn Quotes

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

… a cult

I had preconceived notions going in and it was even stranger than I thought it would be …. It is a total cult of personality.

We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.

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.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

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

One strength of the Communist system ... is that it has some of the characteristics of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

What cults offer is an inside track of what’s going on in the world.

I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.

The difference between a cult and a religion, of course, lies in extremity.

We considered the Dear Leader our god. That's huge. He's more than our parents. I thought all of the world respected Kim Il Sung. That's why we were bowing to their pictures.

Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

So many people have asked me if I am in a cult. I'm not in a cult.

I'm not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.

Frankly, I wouldn't put anything past him [Nixon] and those damn technocrats. You can't begin to compete with the professional Nixonites when it comes to deception.... If Nixon told them to nationalize the railroads, they'd have nationalized the railroads. If he'd told them to exterminate the Jews, they'd have exterminated the Jews.

It takes an institution to help propagandize an idea.