Cult Abuse Survivor Quotes & Sayings

I looked back to see Holmes mincing within my footsteps, his skirt drawn up to reveal the trousers below. Were it not for the threat hanging over us, I would have given out with a girlish giggle at the sight, but I refrained. I passed the gates with the revolver in my hand, but there was no human there, only a scurry in the dustbins. — Laurie R. King

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. — Will Durant

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. — Zaha Hadid

The saying in China is If you're one in a million, there's still 1,300 people just like you. — Thomas L. Friedman

Breaking free is only the beginning. Then begins the painful process of reversing the indoctrination. The longer someone stays in a cult the harder it is for them to remember who they were before the cult took control of their mind. Or in the case of someone like me, a cult-born child, my entire personality was made and created by them. When I left I had no idea who I was. My whole existence, everything I thought I knew, had been a lie.

But it is the psychological aftermath of life in a cult that is all too often the silent killer. — Natacha Tormey

Generally people don't recomend this type of book at all. It is far too interesting. Perhaps you have had other books recomended to you. Perhaps, even, you have been given books by friends, parents, teachers, then told that these books are the type you have to read. Those books are invariably described as "important"- which in my experience, pretty much means that they're boring. (words like meaningful and thoughtful are other good clues.) — Brandon Sanderson

[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate. — Ludwig Feuerbach

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. — Thomas Fuller

Nobody gets between me and my microphone. — Sinead O'Connor

tonight's festivities, they'd taken over Faraday's Tennis Club, a place where you didn't usually get — A.J. Carella

Power without authority is tyranny. — Jacques Maritain

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice. — George MacDonald

But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne. — Augusten Burroughs

Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero? — Whoopi Goldberg

It was interesting that fury and fear could look so much the same. — Liane Moriarty