“Another woman, known as Jay, testified that Mack told her that she needed to have seduce Raniere as a way of healing her trauma from previous sexual abuse.”— Andrew Limbong, npr.org
“You could also make sure that other people on your team know the facts about the organization, so that they might be more likely to decline if Jason or Bernadette try to recruit them (especially because trying to recruit acquaintances is part of the model).”— Alison Green, askamanager.org
“Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman admitted to harboring an undocumented individual and helping Raniere use a deceased woman’s credit card.”— Amanda Arnold, thecut.com
“Usually, you only hear about cults when shit really goes down. But what are they like from the inside?”— Adam Elder, melmagazine.com
“In a narcissist’s eyes, all victims are replaceable and interchangeable, depending on what they can do for the narcissist. All victims are in a never-ending competition to prove their worth and value to the narcissist. They are dolls in a narcissist's playhouse of horrors.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Satanists need to have more faith than Christians, because Christ was seen and felt. Lucifer has never felt the need to be seen, but in everyone’s soul he can be felt. A lot of these little cults practice Satanism nowadays, but not in a violent form. They’re only looking for ways to play out wickedn…”— Richard Ramirez, evilminds.tumblr.com
“When I was nine, word came down from on high that the world was going to end, that Rajneesh wanted us to build caves to live in so that we might survive the inevitable nuclear holocaust.”— Hira Bluestone, therumpus.net
“Uh, we try to point out to each other, when we're thinking from the ‘cult mind, hive mind,’ as we call it, because that mind tells us our private thoughts can hurt. But the truth is, Eddie, we're entitled to our own thoughts.”— Justin Doble, Reggie, Stephen Conrad Moore, imdb.com
“Well, the girls at the salon told me that there was this group that if you disobeyed their leader, he'd make you lick the floor with your tongue.”— Annie Weisman, Chloe Jones, Leven Rambin, imdb.com
“We're a part of something that matters, and we matter because we are a part of it.”— Julia Brownell, Sarah Cleary, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“What kind of a snobby, stuck-up cult is this?”— Steve O'Donnell, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“Is this the group that goes around mutilating squirrels?”— Bruce Kirschbaum, Frank Costanza, Jerry Stiller, imdb.com