A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

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Cults Religion

Author

Tom Wolfe

Source

In Our Time

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Wolfe, Tom. "Entr'actes and Canapes." In Our Time. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and smug in "the social," our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

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Baudrillard, Jean. Cool Memories: 1980-1985. Editions Galilee, 1987, ch. 1.

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Thomas Paine
Source
Rights of Man
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Time
1792 1790s 18th century
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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.