Bill Maher Quotes

We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

[The John Birch Society] has attracted a lunatic fringe that is now assuming serious proportions.

… a cult

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

People don’t get radicalized overnight. It’s a process that takes 3 or 4 years.

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.

So many people have asked me if I am in a cult. I'm not in a cult.

I'm not like recruiting people and starting a cult and telling people to be fat.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine.

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

There are a lot of universities that are as dangerous with the indoctrination of the children as terrorists are in Iran or North Korea. We have been setting up reeducation camps. We call them universities.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.