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{{quote| '''Dumbledore:''' It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to our enemies - but just as much to stand up to our friends.}}
* The ''[[Illuminatus]]!'' trilogy works with this issue quite a bit. Often charismatic, powerful leaders of the anarchist protagonists deliberately lie or spread false rumours of themselves painting them as monstrous villains, in order to make their followers suspicious of their motives and make up their own minds. The problems start when the followers choose to follow despite of this; it's implied that the evil Illuminati was born because of a mistake like this.
* One criticism sometimes leveled at ''some'' followers of Ayn Rand's philosophy of [[
** Michael Shermer wrote the interesting essay [http://www.2think.org/02_2_she.shtml "The Unlikeliest Cult in History"] about this very phenomenon.
** This even pops up among fans of objectivist writers who don't explicitly reference Rand in their works -- though the devotion is instead to that writer, not Rand (usually until the writer in question tells them where he got the idea).
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