Belief Quote by Emma Donoghue

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are…

— Tariq Ramadan

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers…

— Tony Blair

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime,…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“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

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

— Jean-Francois Cope

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee…

— Deeyah Khan

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

On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal…

— Tim Berners-Lee

“Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one that…

— Richard Dawkins

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

You have all kinds - you know, you have the rise of extremist groups in the United States. It's just you don't call them…

— Christopher Wylie