Top 35 Joost Meerloo Quotes
#1. We live in a world of constant noise which captures our minds even when we are not aware of it
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#3. It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
Joost Meerloo
#4. There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.
Muad'Dib
Frank Herbert
#6. Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response, while others learned more quickly when the penalty for not learning was a painful stimulus.
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#7. Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
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#8. All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.
Vladimir Nabokov
#9. I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.
Jim Morrison
#10. Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.
Joost Meerloo
#11. Stand-by morale, based on fear as in prisons, may disintegrate at the least sign of weakness in leader or guard, or when the individuals have not as yet been sufficiently disciplined.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#12. I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.
Marian Wright Edelman
#13. The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.
Joost Meerloo
#14. Well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.
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#15. Happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Arnold Bennett
#16. A fantastic thing is happening in our world. Today a man is no longer punished only for the crimes he has in fact committed. Now he may be compelled to confess to crimes that have been conjured up by his judges, who use his confession for political purposes.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#18. What counts in any man is the consistency and integrity of his behavior, and his courage in taking a stand, not his conformity to official dogma.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#19. Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.
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#20. all men are different, and it is the difference between them that creates the greatness, the variety, and the creative inspirations of life, as well as the tensions of social intercourse.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#21. advertising symbolizes the art of making people dissatisfied with what they have.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#22. Let us not forget that the best morale booster for ourselves is to help to lift the morale of others. When
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#25. People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it.
Zachary Levi
#26. Hitler was known among his intimates as the carpet-eater, because he often threw himself on the floor in a kicking and screaming fit like an epileptic rage.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#27. The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.
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#28. Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself
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#29. The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.
Liz Miller
#30. An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
James Baldwin
#31. It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has, before all of us stood up to say enough is enough.
Nelson Mandela
#32. What we once fling away never comes again to us.
Ethel M. Dell
#33. Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human, are always incomplete.
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#34. In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.
Joost Meerloo
#35. Because you should never run from something that scares you. This time, you won't be alone. I'll be with you.
Faith Sullivan
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