Captive Quotes

“As French philosopher Voltaire once wrote: “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Catherine Oxenberg, Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm

“The term ‘brainwashing’ is really describing a synthesis of coercive persuasion and influence techniques used to gain undue influence over people. The way you recognize undue influence is you will see people acting against their own best interest but consistently acting in the best interest of a person who has undue influence over them.”
― Catherine Oxenberg, Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm

“Keith’s former publicist from many years ago. In 2007, he’d been hired by political consultant Roger Stone—yes, that Roger Stone—to clean up Nxivm’s image. (Stone had worked at Nxivm for a short stint.”
― Catherine Oxenberg, Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm