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
We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality. — Zal Batmanglij 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
“How sick in your mind and your soul to be scared of my voice and my words.” — The Cure 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
What with 'The Brady Bunch,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Sound of Music,' I have three cults going. — Nicholas Hammond Copy Share Image
“...evangelicalism is not not so much a religion as a series of fast-moving personality cults.” — Frank Schaeffer 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
Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there… — Robert Thurman 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
California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower… — Creed Bratton 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
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
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 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
“Marxist cults are both a culmination of the evolution of Christianity and a most impressive instance of the historical and social phenomenon… — Revilo P. Oliver 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“I’m really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all with their own secret… — Robin Sloan 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
I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they… — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“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
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
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