“Wilderness appealed to those bored or disgusted with man and his works. It not only offered an escape from society but also was an ideal stage for the Romantic individual to exercise the cult that he frequently made of his own soul. The solitude and total freedom of the wilderness created a perfect setting for either melancholy or exultation.” MenMadeSoulIndividualPerfectStageExerciseSolitudeIdealsSettingSettingsBoredWildernessWorking ItMelancholyCultDisgusted Book:Wilderness and the American Mind Source: Wilderness and the American Mind
“The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.” WellsChildrenIndividualViewsPersonalityQuietConvincedPlentyThank GodCultUnjustifiedIndividual Personality Book:The World As I See It Source: The World As I See It
“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.” IndividualNationsQualityAcceptancePersonalityNormalResistanceFollowersHeroicModestyHeroismCultAnonymityLimelightCult Of Personality Author:Shana Alexander
“anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.” SpiritualPurposeValuesIndividualChangeLosesMoralMovementMassActivismCollectivesCultCrusadesSpiritual Values Author:Rosamond Lehmann
“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.” YearsFirstsCoursesIndividualPartyPrinciplesPositionTypeTruth IsCollectivesNeverthelessCult Author:Anastas Mikoyan