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“These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.”

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Book:Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“I discourage a cult of personality.”

Personality Cult Discouraging Cult Of Personality

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.”

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Author:Meles Zenawi

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Shana Alexander

“Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.”

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Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

“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.”

Personality Cult

Author:Bill Maher

“Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.”

Ifs Way Hurt My Own Personality Crosses Western Cult Massachusetts Domes Cult Of Personality

Author:John Hodgman

“It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.”

Needs Ends Seems Father Figures Revolution Personality Chinese Cult Father Figure

Author:John Lennon

“I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“[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.”

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Author:Vito Acconci

“I actually think the only way that you can beat Trump is recognizing that he is a one- man wrecking machine fueled by this cult personality. So you have to attack him on those bases. None of these ideological positioning issues matter for [Donald] Trump.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I think the Arab world has no personality cult situation going on that they have in much of the Western world, South America included. They are a culture of words and religion, and you won't see manycsa charismatic people on Al Jazeera, except for the ones who are now learned presenters. You see Arab leaders getting on TV - which was very hard for me working out how to do the part, since Arab leaders are looking somnambulant, staring into their microphone, almost as if someone's got a hand up their back.”

“The fake healers make you dependent. They aggrandize their personality cult and finances. They increase their stature with titles like Doctor, Bishop, Apostle, Prophet. This increases their authority to manipulate. Watch out for those who put themselves above you. The real ones point to Christ in you. You can pray just like anyone else. The gifts of the Spirit belong to the Holy Spirit. You have this inside you by faith and can be a conduit.”

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Author:Richard Rossi

“I think the cult of personality is the thing that people find a real problem with. It's hard to unify behind something that is unknown. I know more about black holes than I do about Donald Trump's ever-changing news. So I don't blame - like, I don't blame conservatives going, like "Hey, this is something that I believe in. And I don't know what he believes." But that could change. That could change in four months.”

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Author:Greg Gutfeld

“It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular personality, as opposed to a more anonymous group of people playing music. It's more about can I dress this person up? Are they going to look pretty? I feel like the cult of personality is back, for sure.”

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Author:Ed Droste

“If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves.”

Party Personality Leap Representation Cult Breaking Down

Author:Avi Lewis

“As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“The whole world is a personality cult.”

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Author:Anneli Rufus

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