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“Truer answers to the question of cult influence can only arrive when you ask the right questions: What techniques do charismatic leaders use to exploit people’s fundamental needs for community and meaning? How do they cultivate that kind of power?”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence
“The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood’s dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.”
― 'Salem's Lot
― 'Salem's Lot
“But with a glimmer of willingness, language can do so much to squash independent thinking, obscure truths, encourage confirmation bias, and emotionally charge experiences such that no other way of life seems possible.”
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
“We all impose some coherence—some meaning—on the chaotic events of our existence. We rummage through the raw images of our memories, selecting, burnishing, erasing. We emerge as the heroes of our stories, allowing us to live with what we have done—or haven’t done.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
“A hedge knight is the truest kind of knight, Dunk,” the old man had told him, a long long time ago. “Other knights serve the lords who keep them, or from whom they hold their lands, but we serve where we will, for men whose causes we believe in. Every knight swears to protect the weak and innocent, but we keep the vow best, I think.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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