Cult Quotes

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.

I just told you I wasn't a Satanist.

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.

The religion of Hell is patriotism.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

I put the cult in culture.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

As far as I can see, I really was put out of Germany for the crime of blasphemy. … My offense was to think that Hitler is just an ordinary man, after all. This is a crime against the reigning cult in Germany, which says that Mr. Hitler is a Messiah sent by God to save the German people — an old Jewish idea. To question this mystic mission is so heinous that, if you are German you can be sent to jail. I, fortunately, am an American, so I merely was sent to Paris. Worse things can happen to one.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Scientology is not a terrorist organization. Scientology has used intimidating tactics and vindictive litigation.

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.

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your capacity to feel pain. As the capacity to feel pain increases, so does the pain. It's absolutely terrifying. I believed God was going to curse me for having left this group of people.

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

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