Cult Quotes
284 quotes by 246 authors
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The past is not what it was.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in…
— Max Lerner
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The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the…
— Mao Zedong
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Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you,…
— Janet Morris
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Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church…
— Rick Santorum
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the…
— Rajneesh
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it…
— Angela Carter
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