Thought Reform

Thought reform can refer to:

  • Mind control (or brainwashing, or coercive persuasion)
  • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, book by Robert Jay Lifton

Famous quotes containing the words thought and/or reform:

    “We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of “expediency.” There is no such thing as sliding up- hill. In morals the only sliders are backsliders.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)