Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
“FRACTURED FACTIONS Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals. — Sarah Edmondson Copy Share Image
“A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that’s impossible!” — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“The Christless cults and deity-dishonoring mushroom religions of this midnight hour tempt the Lord God. Will no one sound the alarm?” — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult. — Riley Stearns Copy Share Image
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“Many ritually abusive cults deliberately divide the personality system down the middle of the head, making sure that there is no communication… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
“Priests of a thousand cults proclaim the essential goodliness of Man. They must be fools. All I see is people flinging themselves… — Glen Cook - Dread Brass Shadows Copy Share Image
The Scooby gang doesn't travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they're one step ahead of the… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
“A piece of advice: if you want to remain in control of a doomsday cult, don't give a date for the end… — Jennifer Bosworth Copy Share Image
“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Marxist cults are both a culmination of the evolution of Christianity and a most impressive instance of the historical and social phenomenon… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the… — Leon Bourgeois Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Most of the time when you see movies with cults, they're the bad guys. And they're the bad guys from the moment… — Ti West Copy Share Image
All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus… — Deborah Layton Copy Share Image
“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image
“Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a… — Lloyd Demause Copy Share Image
“Because the problem of ritual abuse and mind control has not gone away - the survivors are still there - many more… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a… — Valerie Sinason Copy Share Image