Religious Cult Quotes

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

Sean Durkin

#2. If any other religious cult knew so few basic facts about its own seminal beliefs as the liberal cult does about Joe McCarthy, Janet Reno would gas them.

Ann Coulter

#3. When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

Zadie Smith

#4. That's insane! But then, we're talking about a religious cult here, and cult followers aren't renowned for their rationality.

Jennifer Bosworth

#5. The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature
: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

Johnny Hart

#7. I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudner

#8. As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Noam Chomsky

#9. Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.

Ari Gold

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?

Matt Haig

#13. I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.

Ron Barrier

#14. When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.

Jan Shipps

#15. FRACTURED FACTIONS
Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

Kamil Ali

#16. 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

#17. He would deny this is confronted, citing evasively his affection for Dante and Giotto, but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.

Donna Tartt

#18. When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

J. Gordon Melton