Brain Washing Quotes

#1. Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Arthur Koestler

#2. Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Germaine Greer

#3. The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

Nadine Gordimer

#4. Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.

Bryant McGill

#5. Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid ...

Lucy Freeman

#6. It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Neil Gaiman

#7. The brain's habit of literalizing metaphors - the tendency to regard people as having "warmer" personalities when you happen to be holding a mug of coffee, the Bicamerals' use of hand-washing to mitigate feelings of guilt and uncertainty - is also an established neurological fact.

Peter Watts

#8. In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreign to it. To live out the doubling and call forth the evil is a moral choice for which one is responsible, whatever the level of consciousness involved.

Robert Jay Lifton

#9. I don't feel beholden to follow the real world at all. The important thing is to know WHY things turned out the way they did. You need to understand the reasons for events, or at least be able to make reasonable guesses about them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. You know how you just don't like guys on the other team sometimes? It's funny because growing up I loved Roger (Clemens), loved to watch Roger pitch. Then when I was first in the big leagues and he was for the other team, I hated him.

Andy Pettitte

#11. I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

Andy Behrman

#12. I raise my glass to the moon and drink it myself.
Life has never tasted sweeter.

Kami Garcia

#13. You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.

Bill Maher

#14. Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

Stephen Crane

#15. Truth will heart you and set u free .

Lexis Smigz

#16. But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.

E. M. Forster

#17. I risked my life to save lives. I'm not looking for glory. I just want people to know the truth about what happened.

Tadeusz Borowski

#18. True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

Frederick Buechner

#19. Frequently give up some of your property by giving it with a generous heart to the poor ... It is true that God will repay us not only in the next world but even in this.

Francis De Sales

#20. I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

Henry Winkler

#21. I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted
my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.

Dodie Smith

#22. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Dominic Stevenson

#23. Ignorant power is a bane!

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. No one does wrong voluntarily.

Socrates