Ali Quote by Kamil Ali

“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

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

“most of the Universe’s major wars had been caused by zealots aggressively spreading their own religion, so”

— Eoin Colfer

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people…

— Daniel Bell

[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

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

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

— Joe Rogan

“Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political…

— Thomas Wolfe

Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.

— Johnny Hart

“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.”

— Dan Santos

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

— Robert Altman

Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not…

— Benjamin Wittes