After the 2009 'Cult Of Static' touring cycle ended, I felt that, as a band, Static-X had accomplished everything we set out… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
This Oscar Pistorius business is interesting. There is this cult of carrying lots of guns and being ready to shoot somebody. There… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whether the origin of 'A Course In Miracles' is diabolical or merely psychological, the book proclaimed an anti-gospel of unreality and bred… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Hamas and Hezbollah operate within geopolitical norms. They can be negotiated and reasoned with. ISIL is a different animal altogether - a… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Cult leaders are often self-styled prophets who have not studied with great teachers or undergone lengthy training or discipline themselves. . .… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The word 'cult' is almost a nice way of saying a lot of people hate you, or have never heard of you.… — Limmy Copy Share Image
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
Fixing culture is the most critical − and the most difficult − part of a corporate transformation… In the end, management doesn’t… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad… — Robert Pape Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And when you get lots… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also… — Roderick Nash Copy Share Image
I think generally the heads of terrorist groups are very, very smart people. They're also great manipulators. I would presume that cult… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“No one can claim their particular vision of the divine as correct, if there are thousands of other 'visions' with which to… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“The salpinx is not simply an instrument of summoning. It is also an instrument of binding. Since you followed its sorrowful tones… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. If that had happened,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult… — Peter York Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
You have those who have been living and breathing Buckminster Fuller ever since he converted them to his cult and to be… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
He bends over to untie his shoes. “So, have you been ostracized from your little crowd of devotees?” “No,” I say automatically.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
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