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But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

~Alexei Sayle

Topics: Belief Central Communist Communist Party Cults Down Down The Road Elimination Fanaticism Led Mass Nuance Party Road Slowly System Very You

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Conditions Cults Does Emotional Father First First Place Gives Goddesses Gods Invented Just Life Mother Myths Notion Place Price Real Revival Satisfaction Silly Were Why Woman

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The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

~B. R. Ambedkar

Topics: Also Basis Been Classes Classified Cults Different Fixed Food Habits Hindus Just

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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

Topics: Begins Break Break Up Crumble Cults Direct Experience Feel Framework Institutional Organization People Religion Religious Rise Search Theology Up Which

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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

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

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There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

~Emily Greene Balch

Topics: Comparative Cults Desire Even Exotic Experiment Faiths Great Interest Other Our Own Religion Than Understand

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