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:
“If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....”
—Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)