The star system, the idol, the cult of personality is not the only way to be in entertainment. — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
“Once in power, Stalin’s campaign to succeed Lenin required a legitimate heroic career which he did not possess because of his experience… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
“Was it only that explosion of atavism which is now evasively called "the cult of personality" that was so horrible? Or was… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The status of celebrity offers the promise of being showered with ‘all good things’ that capitalism has to offer. The grotesque display… — Martin Jenkins Copy Share Image
Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“Finally, we arrive at the question of the so-called nonpolitical man. Hitler not only established his power from the very beginning with… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis… — Ed Droste Copy Share Image
When people go to vote still in Britain, they will look at their local representatives, but I don't think there is a… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
“BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs’s work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think the cult of personality is the thing that people find a real problem with. It's hard to unify behind something… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
“The conundrum was that conservative media saw Trump as its creature, while Trump saw himself as a star, a vaunted and valued… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by… — Constantine Karamanlis Copy Share Image
Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
