"The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome."

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Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2012). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China”, p.78, UNC Press Books

Robert Jay Lifton

#Emotional Quotes #Issues Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“I tip like crazy. Theyll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.”
“The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.”
“Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!”
“If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.”
“If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.”
“Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.”
“What you do in the presentâ€”by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourselfâ€”will last into Godâ€™s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for Godâ€™s kingdom.”
“Theres a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.”

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