Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Yahweh—a jealous god, who would hold men to himself and who turned mankind away from the Tree of Immortality, instead of leading us to…

— Joseph Campbell

“The Yomeshta would say that man’s singularity is his divinity.’ ‘Lords of the Earth, yes. Other cults on other worlds have come to the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions…

— Israel Shenker

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

— Kamil Ali

“We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association." "-the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants,…

— Philip Roth

“Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered his would-be…

— Zeena Schreck

“What we have to do now, then, Sir, is to lay your request before the daughters of educated men and to ask them to…

— Virginia Woolf

“The interest of initiation for an understanding of archaic mentality lies predominantly in its showing us that the true man-the spiritual man-is not given,…

— Mircea Eliade

“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult organizations are…

— Zeena Schreck

“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding…

— Rami Ollaik

“The God Wars had not been a pleasant time for Craftsmen and Craftswomen around the world. One day, you’re a simple thaumaturge, idly meddling…

— Max Gladstone