“FRACTURED FACTIONS Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that’s impossible!” — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
[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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
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
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
“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
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