Mike Rinder > Quotes

“The fear of psychiatry is one of the hardest ideas to shake when you escape from the mind-prison.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“The absolute conviction that what you are doing is right and just and saving mankind provides enormous strength to persist and overcome incredible odds. It’s almost a superpower.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“his book proved, beyond any doubt, that Hubbard was an inveterate liar.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“It was a tactic famously used by Stalin—keep your subordinates divided, fearful, confused, and off-balance.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“and David Miscavige walked out alone and stood at the small wooden podium in the center of the stage,”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“Thus, at twenty hundred hours Friday, the twenty-fourth of January, AD 36 [Hubbard’s calendar: ‘after Dianetics’], L. Ron Hubbard discarded the body he had used in this lifetime for seventy-four years, ten months, and eleven days. The body he had used to facilitate his existence in this MEST universe had ceased to be useful and in fact had become an impediment to the work he now must do outside of its confines.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“It was a scary thought to have no crutch, but ultimately it was extremely liberating.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“Hubbard was not by any means penniless, but despite his self-proclaimed wisdom and knowledge of all things, to expire from a stroke in a motor home parked in a barn was hardly a noble end.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“I was too busy with what I had been taught were “more important things”: saving the planet.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“aughts.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“definitions”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“The fight for the very survival of scientology became even more real and urgent. And I believed it was my duty to mankind to take that fight to the mat and sacrifice whatever was needed to ensure we prevailed.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“LRH PPRO Int.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“Hubbard’s administrative policies as dictated in his letters, which were known as Green on White because they were printed in green ink on white paper (to distinguish them from Red on White, which described auditing procedures).”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“OSA had just assumed the functions of the old GO with a new name. It was a public relations move: “We got rid of the rogue Guardian’s Office.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“Hubbard’s insistence on always attacking, never defending, and the relentless unwillingness to ever give in proved to be the winning strategy.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“Scientology not only didn’t follow up in court with all the supposed evidence they had amassed, they dropped their case and settled. Today Debbie and Wayne live comfortable, peaceful lives in the Texas Hill Country.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“I was like a man contemplating suicidie who put the gun in his mouth many times but just could not pull the trigger.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“She tried to explain, as she often did, “Dave is just very stressed and we have to do everything we can to keep him from being so upset all the time.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“Scientology’s new corporate front was like replacing an inmate’s orange jumpsuit with a jacket and tie. It didn’t change the man, but it made it more likely he would get in the door for an interview.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“I believe that many who remain in scientology fear letting go of the almost total abdication of questioning that scientology affords them.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“what should have been a crack in the armor of certainty that shielded my mind became instead a reaffirmation and impetus to do even more. Now we had to make sure the goals of the Old Man were achieved no matter what”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

“we would cross whatever bridge we had blown up when the time came.”
― Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology