“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
What with 'The Brady Bunch,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Sound of Music,' I have three cults going. — Nicholas Hammond 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
“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
“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
“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
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
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within. — Vance Havner 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult. — Riley Stearns Copy Share Image
