We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality. — Zal Batmanglij 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
“...evangelicalism is not not so much a religion as a series of fast-moving personality cults.” — Frank Schaeffer 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
“How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.” — The Cure 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
I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult. — Riley Stearns 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
![“Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered his would-be alien flock that they were an elite elect far superior to the non-initiated humans whom he considered to be deluded…” quote by Zeena Schreck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7eb/zeena-schreck-12024_cults_among-applewhite-s-other-teachings-was-t_1830609.jpg)
