Re Education Quotes

“Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there.
Don't let them change me, I prayed silently.Let me keep my mind. Let me endure whatever there is to come.”
― Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows

“Loading the language is the mind-numbing process by which ‘the most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive- sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed’, whose aim is to shut down independent thinking.”
― Kathleen Taylor, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

“Brainwashing is more ambitious, and more coercive, than simple persuasion, and unlike older cognates such as indoctrination, it has become closely associated with modern, mechanistic technology. It is a systematic processing of non- compliant human beings which, if successful, refashions their very identities.”
― Kathleen Taylor, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control

“Although force is often used, it is not essential. Many cults woo their victims with love, rather than brutality.”
― Kathleen Taylor, Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control