Backgrounds Quote by Anne Waldman

This may sound insulting to some of my cult studies friends, but there's a lot of cult studies people who ignore, shall we say,…

— Peter York

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate…

— Michael O'Keefe

I've always been fascinated by cults even as a kid.

— Riley Stearns

There's an element of realism to it. I immersed myself more in the subject as a young adult. Then I started to get involved…

— Ralph Sarchie

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's…

— Emma Donoghue

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all,…

— Michael Giles

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

— Charles Colson

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

— Johnny Hart

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups…

— Rick Ross

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail…

— Liz Williams

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two…

— Jeremy Shockey

Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs.…

— Rodrigo Cortes