Spencer Dryden Quotes

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

I can't control everybody's mind.

Everywhere you look, there's someone doing your thinking for you and telling you what to think and when to think of it.

The Way teaches that people outside the cult are evil - of the Devil. In line with that belief, the members tried to alienate me from my family, to whom I am very close, and from my friends. So I just drifted away. In seeing my three-month involvement as 'just a phase,' my parents were lucky rather than wise.

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

If you wish to persuade people that because Adam ate an apple, all who have never heard of this interesting occurrence will be roasted in an everlasting fire by a benevolent Deity, you must catch them young, make them stupid by means of drink or drugs, and carefully isolate them from all contact with books or companions capable of making them think.

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

I see the 'z' in 'Humanz' as referring to robots, AI, programming, brainwashing, indoctrination. And it's a question to us: are we human, or are we humanz? Have we lost the ability to think for ourselves? Do we just believe what we're told? That's how I see it.

There's a lot of things that are good in Scientology, because I wouldn't have been in it. And that's the thing: a lot of people trivialize this thing, like, 'Oh, it's Xenu, and it's a volcano, and it's jumping on couches and acting crazy.' These people are victims. We've been victimized. We believed in something because it starts out very normal.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

I'm very good at manipulation.

The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.

We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.