Causes Quote by David Brooks

“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

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down…

— Annie E. Clark

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

— Quentin Tarantino

They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for…

— Brit Marling

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

Most of the time when you see movies with cults, they're the bad guys. And they're the bad guys from the moment they show…

— Ti West

“For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to…

— Judith Spencer

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

— Sean Durkin

So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak…

— Brad Warner

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so,…

— Christopher Hitchens