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Maurice Davis:
It seems to me that any cult has to have the following characteristics:
- One, a dictatorial leader, often called charismatic, who has total and unlimited control over his group.
- Two, followers who have abdicated the right to say no, the right to pass judgment, the right to protest, who have sold their souls for the security of slavery.
- Three, possibly the most dangerous doctrine known to our civilization, that the end justifies the means . . . .
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John Thaw, in the voice of Chief Inspector Morse:
The Church loves a repentant sinner . . . good for business.
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Judith Kelman:
Life, I tell my sons, is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
Kelman, Judith, “Introduction,” Stout, Rex, Curtains for Three (New York: Bantam, 1994), p. vi.