Belief Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“FRACTURED FACTIONS Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots”

— Kamil Ali

Every single religion that has ever been on the face of the Earth, ever, is a cult. That’s all they are.

— Joe Rogan

I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment…

— Keith Henson

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is…

— Theodore Dalrymple

All cult leaders are very good at supplying people with what they want and are missing in their lives, so they feel loved and…

— James Purefoy

All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners…

— Frederick Lenz

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control…

— Philip Zimbardo

Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the gods of…

— Helen Bosanquet

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but…

— Benjamin Wittes

“People do not knowingly join “cults” that will ultimately destroy and kill them. People join self-help groups, churches, political movements, college campus dinner socials,…

— Deborah Layton

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

— Keith Henson