{"quotes":[{"text":"The Supreme Cult never leaves a man. It never gets destroyed or evaporated. It is God’s grace and it is sure to bear fruit in its own time.","author":"Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond","tags":["cult","god","supreme"],"id":3574,"author_id":"Sri+Jibankrishna+or+Diamond"},{"text":"Because many people are confused by Kundalini’s real nature, we must do more to define it accurately, starting with what it is not. For example, it isn’t devil worship or a supernaturalcult. Neither is it a religion nor a sect. It’s a biological process.You can’t be converted to Kundalini any more than you can be converted to a heart attack or an orgasm; they just happen. That’s the nature of biological processes: They just happen.","author":"J.J. Semple","tags":["biological","cult","devil-worship","kundalini","orgasm","supernatural"],"id":12693,"author_id":"J.J.+Semple"},{"text":"I discourage a cult of personality.","author":"Newt Gingrich","tags":["personality","cult "],"id":30220,"author_id":"Newt+Gingrich"},{"text":"One man's cult is another man's religion.","author":"Annie Parisse","tags":["man","cult","another "],"id":45389,"author_id":"Annie+Parisse"},{"text":"These masked men were going to bring me to a cleaner place, where things were more sharply distinguished from one another and where I would finally have the space to figure out who I was without other people nudging me all the time into shapes they thought I should have.","author":"Alexandra Kleeman","tags":["alexandra-kleeman","cult","finding-yourself","identity","pressure","self-discovery"],"id":59663,"author_id":"Alexandra+Kleeman"},{"text":"To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["anarchy","connection","cult","delusion","fantasy","philosophy","religion","statism"],"id":93815,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of the world. Aum renunciates have already accepted, inside themselves, the end of the world, because when they become a renunciate, they discard themselves totally, thereby abandoning the world. In other words, Aum is a collection of people who have accepted the end. People who continue to hold out hope for the near future still have an attachment to the world. If you have attachments, you will not discard your Self, but for Renunciates it's as if they've leaped right off the cliff. And taking a giant leap like that feels good. They lose something - but gain something in return.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["cult","identity","losing-yourself"],"id":109141,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've actually been running through what people have said about the end. Religion says that the end is one thing, because it serves their purpose. But great thinkers alike haven't always agreed. Shakespeare knew how to say it better than anyone else. Hamlet says 'The rest is silence.' And when you think of the noises of everyday life, you realize how particularly desirable that is. Silence.","author":"Vincent Price","tags":["cult","horror","icon","victoria-price","vincent-price"],"id":117502,"author_id":"Vincent+Price"},{"text":"In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He doesn't know.If a value has lost its concrete content, what is left of it? A mere empty form; an imperative that goes unheeded and, all the more furious, demands to be heard and obeyed. The less Esch knows what he wants, the more furiously he wants it. Esch: the fanaticism of the era with no God. Because all values have hidden their faces, anything can be considered a value. Justice, order—Esch seeks them now in the trade union struggle, then in religion; today in police power, tomorrow in the mirage of America, where he dreams of emigrating. He could be a terrorist or a repentant terrorist turning in his comrades, or a party militant or a cult member a kamikaze prepared to sacrifice his life. All the passions rampaging through the bloody history of our time are taken up, unmasked, and terrifyingly displayed in Esch's modest adventure.","author":"Milan Kundera","tags":["ambiguity","broch","certainty","cult","esch","existentialism","fanaticism","imperative","loyalty","modern","novel","order","post-modern","purpose-of-life","sacrifice","sleepwalkers","symbolic","values"],"id":120413,"author_id":"Milan+Kundera"},{"text":"The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.","author":"Charlie Sheen","tags":["winning","cult","anonymous "],"id":123470,"author_id":"Charlie+Sheen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}