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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 members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed. Philip Zimbardo

Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state. Molly Ivins

Free State Destroying Members Security Citizens Religious Guns Free State Part Boy Wacky Cults Militia

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope. James Howard Kunstler

Hope Technology Reality National Lust Our Everything Pleasure Abandon Distraction More Toward Days Comfort Narcissistic Souls Limitless Cults Mandates Refusal Where Fidelity Us Realm Engage Ever Growth

Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members. Benjamin Wittes

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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. Daniel Bell

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way. Philip Seymour Hoffman

You Own Way Churches Look Cult Cults Anything

I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all claiming to know the cause and to have the best method for treating people. David D. Burns

Best Me People Cause Tools Claiming Religions Like Know Schools Method Cults Much Therapy Even Compete Treating

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. Katherine Dunn

Me Responsibility Giving Giving Up Power Haunted Structure Outside Always Source Cults Up Wanted Explore Notion Fundamental Second

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. Leon Bourgeois

Religion Law Protection Mercy First Other Those Recognized Members Out Evolved Neither Religious Followed Laws Only Doctrines Equals Practiced Were Nor Cults Gods Same Who Appeared

'The Leftovers' takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it's about how that changes society. Cults form as a result, and it drastically changes home life for a lot of people, including the Garvey family, which is the family I belong to. Margaret Qualley

Life Home Family People Result Three Gone Society Changes Drastically About Takes Missing How Years Cults Lot Leftovers Form After Place Which Home Life Including Population Belong

The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. Peter Thiel

Best People Important Extreme Considered Slightly Those Kinds About Something Tend Outside Wrong Missed Important People Cults Difference Biggest Biggest Difference Might Successful Less Right Start-Up

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

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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 an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. Theodore Dalrymple

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On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable. Tim Berners-Lee

People Thinking Rapidly Find Some Web Had Spread Cult Issues Cults Very Personal Which Formula Who Deep Suddenly Believable

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have reached a circulation of 15 million. those are not my figures but the figures of the people who distribute them. Walter Martin

You People Circulation Those Distribute See Reached Audience Years Cults Years Ago Tapes Them Who Figures Now Near Million

We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality. Zal Batmanglij

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