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
I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult. — Riley Stearns Copy Share Image
You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
“A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that’s impossible!” — Francine Pascal 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
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
The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“FRACTURED FACTIONS Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots” — Kamil Ali 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 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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
[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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b11/christopher-hitchens-117_belief_concerning-monotheistic-religions-the-on_219156.jpg)
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