Top 100 A Cult Quotes
#1. They just expected it to you know ... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?
Amy Sedaris
#2. A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.
Caitlin Doughty
#3. My first horror film was - well, I don't know. 'Bless the Child' is sort of genre, but 'May' was such a cult hit that after that, I just started getting offers for horror. I think I got a little bit pigeonholed in it right off of 'May' because there was just such a large response to that film.
Angela Bettis
#4. The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
Frank Zappa
#5. I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don't know why I couldn't.
Paul Haggis
#6. 'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
Caitlyn Jenner
#7. The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society.
Sam Harris
#8. You're not in a cult, are you, Mom?" "Of course not." She looks at me like I just insulted her. "Those people are all nuts. They'll regret having sold you out. I made sure of that. If Paige eats someone, it'll be someone outside their cult. It's the worst punishment they can imagine.
Susan Ee
#9. 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
#10. 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.
Rosamond Lehmann
#11. For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.
Michelle Forbes
#12. You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don't have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader!
Charles Manson
#13. Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
Norman Finkelstein
#14. It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.
Don Adams
#15. I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.
Ron Barrier
#16. If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.
Andy Warhol
#17. The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'
Sherry Argov
#18. In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.
Frederick Lenz
#19. The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.
Rakesh Khurana
#20. 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
#21. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'. But if we were to apply for a financial aid grant as a cult, I'm afraid we would be turned down for lack of proper qualifications.
Frederick Lenz
#22. When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.
Jan Shipps
#23. I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
Chris Lilley
#24. For at least a century, the music has been captive to a cult of mediocre elitism that tries to manufacture self-esteem by clutching at empty formulas of intellectual superiority.
Alex Ross
#25. Had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction.
Donna Tartt
#26. I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
Nathan Myhrvold
#27. Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.
Courtney Love
#28. 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
#29. 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.
Stephen Colbert
#30. In some ways, to believe in evolution is almost like a following; a cult following - if you don't believe in evolution, you're considered completely backward. That seems to me very indicative of bias as well.
Michele Bachmann
#31. In the same sense that every thermal differential wants to equalize itself, and every computer program wants to become a collection of ad-hoc patches, every Cause wants to be a cult. It's
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#32. Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
Philip Zimbardo
#34. Were it possible to induce the masses to adopt atheism, this belief would exhibit all the intolerant ardor of a religious sentiment, and in its exterior forms would soon become a cult.
Gustave Le Bon
#35. A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible!
Francine Pascal
#36. I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
Adam Ant
#37. I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!
Leighton Meester
#38. It seems there is an ideal degree of aging which is admired. Things should not be new, but neither should they be rotten with age (except in New Orleans, which fosters a cult of decay).
Stewart Brand
#39. But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.
Robert Hughes
#40. Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.
Rick Ross
#42. 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
#44. I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.
Jane Badler
#45. The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
Quentin Tarantino
#46. It is a disturbing aspect of human nature that if there is a place where there are no consequences and where the most grotesque murders are tolerated in the name of a cult claiming to be a faith, a certain type of person will be attracted to it.
Richard Engel
#47. 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
#48. The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection. Mother
Christopher Hitchens
#49. I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?
Joss Whedon
#50. Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Even though he talks about Jesus as his Lord and savior, he is not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. Mormonism is a cult.
Robert Jeffress
#51. When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
Richard Jeni
#52. 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
#53. The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire a search for meaning in the first place.
Karina Longworth
#54. White Castle has a unique position in the Midwest. It is a cult brand that has developed a strong, loyal following.
Ron Paul
#55. I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just his youth talking, not a dogma.
Catherine Lacey
#56. From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali.
Steven Pinker
#57. Any religion that would prohibit life-saving surgery simply because it goes against the literal word of the Bible cane nothing other than a cult. This is an abuse of dogma that crosses the line.
Haruki Murakami
#58. I've always wanted to know what it was like to fuck a cult figure,' the Royal Porcupine said reflectively. He was lying on his mattress, watching me as I scrubbed the dog blood off my belly with a corner of his shirt, dipped in the toilet. He didn't have a sink. 'Well,
Margaret Atwood
#60. My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.
Bill Keller
#61. Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
Bhagat Singh
#62. Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.
Idries Shah
#63. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.
Keith Rabois
#64. South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
Pat Conroy
#65. I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
Alicia Silverstone
#66. If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.
Leon Redbone
#67. The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.
Shenae Grimes
#68. I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.
Sam Dunn
#69. I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.
Kevin Chapman
#70. It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.
Amy Sedaris
#71. On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.
Tim Berners-Lee
#72. -You said this wasn't a cult.
-Secret society. There's a difference.
-Not from where I'm standing.
-Then take a seat.
Jennifer Bosworth
#73. A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.
Robert Todd Carroll
#74. 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
#75. 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.
Danny Baker
#76. Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
Warren Spector
#77. I would say that Jesus Christ and his followers were a cult, Buddha and his followers were a cult and Mohammed and his followers were a cult. Every religion starts out as a cult and if it becomes 'box office', it is accepted.
Frederick Lenz
#78. To be involved with movies that become kind of cult classics ... I've been very fortunate. 'The Warriors' is certainly a cult classic, and 'Xanadu' is, to a certain degree, a cult classic as well.
Michael Beck
#79. Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.
Yaya Han
#80. It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
Craig Bruce
#81. So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.
Brandon Sanderson
#82. Endorsed by Bob Jones, despite calling Mormonism a "cult".
Mitt Romney
#83. 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.
Liz Williams
#84. We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Herbert Hoover
#85. I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
Kathleen Hanna
#86. A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.
Martin Mull
#87. It's like being in the position of - in half of the industry's mind, you're kind of a cult-following, independent rocker. And on the other hand, you're a sellout. But neither one of them are right.
Ben Folds
#88. Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.
Frederick Lenz
#89. Denounce useless guilt. Don't make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.
Erica Jong
#90. The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of specialization. We have no more giants; only obedient ants.
Roger Lowenstein
#91. 'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.
Adriano Giannini
#92. When one person sees or hears something that isn't there, it's called a delusion. When a small group of people have the same experience, it's a cult. Millions of people? Religion.
Jim Hall
#93. I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.
Howard Stern
#94. I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.
Ernst Fuchs
#95. Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Selfridges' Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.
Geraldine James
#97. I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.
Mel Brooks
#98. Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war-torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?
Libba Bray
#99. 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
#100. Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.
Roger Scruton
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