The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
What with 'The Brady Bunch,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Sound of Music,' I have three cults going. — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
“How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.” — The Cure Copy Share Image
Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“...evangelicalism is not not so much a religion as a series of fast-moving personality cults.” — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Religions of hope and love are a luxury of security and order; the need for striking fear into a subject or rebellious… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated that people drawn to cults want to know what to do. And people want to know what to think. And… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts,… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
How can such a man be chased away in a world full of churches, where there are clans and clans, groups and… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Today the word "cult" is often used in both a sociological and a theological sense. Sociologically, a cult is a religious or… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
“I have stated elsewhere (Sinason 1994) that the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious and racial… — Valerie sinason Copy Share Image
“Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so… — Cal Sarwar Copy Share Image
“The greatest danger to the church today is not humanism, paganism, atheism or agnosticism. The greatest danger is not increasing hostility against… — Mark Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“It is true that cults can help a person get off drugs, but that does not make their beliefs true. So it… — Richard D. Phillips Copy Share Image
“We learned a lot about cults in seminary,” he said, “but to be honest, I haven’t given it much thought since it… — Glenda C. Manus Copy Share Image
Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and… — Louis Jolyon West Copy Share Image
How can such a man be chased away in a world full of churches, where there are clans and clans, groups and… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
“This is the mentality of a cult, in which fantastical beliefs are flaunted as proof of one's piety. That mentality cannot coexist… — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“People don't make decisions within these sorts of groups. They try to avoid more torture. Then they are tortured into thinking they… — Wendy Hoffman Copy Share Image
Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
“People desperate for belonging and validation become prime targets for cults. Don’t show recruiters your low self-worth. Protect your neck by knowing… — Vennie Kocsis Copy Share Image
The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult… Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“worship: If we are going to participate in Satanic worship, Indian rituals, cults, new age religions, Masonic rituals, and the other myriad… — Cyndy Sherwood Copy Share Image
However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
