Cult Quote by Michael J. Knowles Download Open image “Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.” — Michael J. Knowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cult Culture Defines Derive Same
“By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“Today the word "cult" is often used in both a sociological and a theological sense. Sociologically, a cult is a religious or semireligious sect… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
"Culture" is a new phenomenon, I believe. Culture is the new religion. People treat you based upon your culture. You are pushed to describe… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group — J. Gordon Melton Copy Share Image
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little bit more… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what one wills.… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
For the Left, when ideology and reality conflict, ideology must win. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The belief that men and women are different, the decision to date a Christian girl, and the audacity to disagree with one's liberal friends… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led the world… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president. We are… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
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
“since she would never have practised the cult of these things, she would take no impious delight in their profanation.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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