“..and whatever you do stay away from cults. There are all sorts of nutty cults out in Lala Land. Crazy people believing… — Marshall Thornton Copy Share Image
It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults,… — Shelley Hennig Copy Share Image
“The Yomeshta would say that man’s singularity is his divinity.’ ‘Lords of the Earth, yes. Other cults on other worlds have come… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Cults often separate the infinite complexities of being alive into a simplistic black-and-white dogma, so as someone who likes a yes or… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
“He's losing weight," I say. "He doesn't sleep anymore." It occurs to me that this is how cults weaken the will of… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to mechanical psychological models of… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Langdon quickly explained how most people pictured satanic cults as devil-worshiping fiends, and yet Satanists historically were educated men who stood as… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
One of the things that can be helpful in terms of an explanation is to look at the ways in which cults… — Sarah Edmondson Copy Share Image
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I’m really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“When we're so caught up in a culture of consumerism [and that is precisely what network marketing is, consumption as a cult]… — Nick van der Leek Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I think cults never stop being interesting and I'm intrigued by how we all do a tiny bit of submitting to a… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to… — Jenna Miscavige Hill Copy Share Image
“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Everyday in the heat, rain and cold, I ran, alone in the woods...in the hills near our home. There I felt the… — Nikki Rosen Copy Share Image
You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
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