Cult Quotes

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

To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

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

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

The most important part of any CrossFit workout is posting about it endlessly on social media. How about you just brag about all the kettlebell burpees you did to the other whackos in your cult?

But the trouble is that he [Alan Greenspan] had been an Ayn Rander. You can take the boy out of the cult but you can't take the cult out of the boy.

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

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.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

I used to make all my clothes when I was in Southern Death Cult [the first incarnation of The Cult]. I still make things to wear on stage and I am involved with sketching, choosing fabric, cutting.

The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

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

The past is not what it was.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

I cant stand those food cult people who bring their own food into the house. All those little thermoses and paper bags-it makes the other guests uncomfortable.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

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

Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

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.