“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
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
“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
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
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 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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned. — Frank Zappa 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
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
I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult. — Riley Stearns 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
What with 'The Brady Bunch,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Sound of Music,' I have three cults going. — Nicholas Hammond 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
We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality. — Zal Batmanglij 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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