Conor Oberst Quotes

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.

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

Scientology and all the other cults are one-dimensional, and we live in a three-dimensional world. Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul.

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.

It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

Your mind is totally controlled, it has been stuffed into my mold. And you will do as you are told, until the rights to you are sold.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.