Cult Quotes

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

The witches do not know the origin of their cult.

It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Get it wrong, and we call it a cult. Get it right, in the right time and the right place, and maybe, for the next few millennia, people won't have to go to work on your birthday.

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time.

The past is not what it was.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

The difference between a cult and a religion is one outlasts its leader.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

All culture must have arisen from cult.

The whole world is a personality cult.

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Please. They're like the Cult of Four.

One mans cult is another mans religion.

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

I'm not the one calling Trumpists the equivalent of a cult. The Drive-Bys, some of them do, as a means of not having to deal with you seriously.

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a larger group - and how they can sneak up on you.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'

I feel like my friends are in a cult because we're like, 'No outsiders!

Maybe radicalization is much more of a problem these days than cult participation. They're pretty close to each other. But in order to understand why someone would sign onto something like this, you have to see the good.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure?

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.