Top 71 Quotes About Brainwashing
#1. The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
Steven Pinker
#2. And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.
Robert Jay Lifton
#3. Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
Scott Adams
#4. If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste.
Vinko Vrbanic
#5. You talk about 'Obama is going to herd us into FEMA brainwashing camps.' Maybe your brain needs a little washing.
Bill Maher
#6. The biggest problem of the world is not lack of education but brainwashing of innocent children by the religion institutes in the name of education. Brainwashing of innocent children no less a violence.
Amit Ray
#7. The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin
Yana Toboso
#8. 1977 - Star Wars is released on 5/25/77. Highest grossing movie in history. First wave of brainwashing in prep for invaders arrival?
Ernest Cline
#9. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything - not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught - all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.
Jim Morrison
#10. Mao relied on propaganda and education - "Thought Reform," as he called it, which became known colloquially as xinao, or "mind-cleansing." (In 1950, a CIA officer who learned of it coined the term brainwashing.)
Evan Osnos
#11. Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
Robert Anton Wilson
#12. We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.
Clarissa Ward
#13. The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
Phyllis Schlafly
#14. Doubt everything except your conscience, even then test the waters, for much brainwashing has gone out into the world
Dara Reidyr
#15. In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.
William Sargant
#16. When the third person effect leads you to condone censorship, take a step back and imagine the sort of messages people on the other side might think are brainwashing you, and then ask yourself if those messages should be censored too.
David McRaney
#17. The family that prays together ... is brainwashing their children.
Albert Einstein
#18. It's a big culture of mind control too, MK-Ultra mind control rules in Hollywood. If you don't know that, google it and look into it. It's really hard for artists to find their voice in the media. It's levels of brainwashing and mind control.
Roseanne Barr
#19. Because everyone who try a-go to church, and they were trying to teach but they weren't teaching, they was brainwashing. Since I would never call that teaching..
Peter Tosh
#20. Two thousand years of monotheistic brainwashing have caused most Westerners to see polytheism as ignorant and childish idolatry. This is an unjust stereotype.
Yuval Noah Harari
#21. But Pavlov purely for a good purpose. Pavlov for friendliness and trust and compassion. Whereas you prefer to use Pavlov for brainwashing, Pavlov for selling cigarettes and vodka and patriotism. Pavlov for the benefit of dictators, generals and tycoons.
Aldous Huxley
#22. Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
Terence McKenna
#23. Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.
Marshall McLuhan
#24. The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task ... The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.
Billy Graham
#25. During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.
Kenneth Goff
#26. The effect of the brainwashing is that we tend to think like the man who, having fallen off a 100-story building is heard to say as he passes the fiftieth floor, 'So far, so good!
Allen Carr
#27. As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget's call on hold. A peppy rendition of "City of God" blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best.
Gretchen McNeil
#28. If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.
Robert Kane Pappas
#29. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Ellen Gilchrist
#30. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
#31. You don't undo thirteen years of brainwashing in two days.
Neal Shusterman
#32. The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
Sean Durkin
#33. I don't engage in brainwashing, I don't dictate forms of lifestyle, I don't perform mass marriages or even singular marriages. I don't tell people what to believe.
Frederick Lenz
#34. Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.
Assata Shakur
#35. There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.
Beverly Engel
#36. The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
J. Paul Getty
#37. Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing
Dean Cavanagh
#38. Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana Ali
#40. Thanks to a lifetime of brainwashing by Disney and Lifetime and Hallmark, she naively believes glimpsing God during an epic fuck somehow translates into some kind of happily ever after with her Prince Charming.
Lauren Rowe
#41. The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
David Korten
#42. The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
Jethro Tull
#43. What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
Antony Beevor
#44. Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.
Mortimer Adler
#45. The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our minds.
Wyatt Tee Walker
#46. It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.
A. D. Coleman
#47. You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.
Morton T. Kelsey
#48. The sad thing was Seventeen would remain completely unaware she was being exploited, such were the ramifications of the insidious mind control programs.
James Morcan
#49. Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.
Marty Rubin
#50. We live in a world of constant noise which captures our minds even when we are not aware of it
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#51. Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.
David Burns
#52. School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.
John Taylor Gatto
#53. But there was nothing beautiful about the word "brainwash". To clean the brain. To strip it bare.
Gemma Malley
#54. A person tends to believe whatever is repeated over and over, whether it is true or not.
Nikki Sex
#55. It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus
Stefan Molyneux
#56. Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.
Robert Owen
#57. Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. Intelligence is what we learn.
Wisdom is what we unlearn.
J.R. Rim
#59. Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.
Joaquim Nabuco
#60. DEPRESSION MEANS AN EMOTIONAL SECLUSIVE FRIGIDITY PERSPECTIVE. LACK OF KNOW-HOW ABOUT THE FACTS AND SITUATIONS ACCORDING TO MODERN HI-FI GLOBE LIFE ENACTS ONE INDIVIDUAL FACING 3600/24/7 DUE TO TREMULANT EXCITED AQUIVER WILL-POWER.
Various
#61. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.
Stefan Molyneux
#65. A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.
Joseph Devlin
#66. Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself
Joost A.M. Meerloo
#67. The storm is here and now. The rains come and water floods our lives. Nothing last forever and the rainbow always appears.
Michaelson Williams
#68. Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
Peter Hitchens
#69. 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
#71. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.
Joss Sheldon
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