Brainwash Quotes

• I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

  Ezra Pound

  Fighting, Men, Intelligent

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• All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist

  Marie Lu

  Reality, Generations, Population

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• Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religion, Atheism, Young

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

  Eminem

  Ass, Mindless

  Song: Rock Bottom, Album: The Slim Shady LP

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• We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Country, Thinking, Average

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• I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.

  John Cena

  Jobs, Trying, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

  David Dark

  People, Records, May

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• What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody.

  Hopsin

  People, Evil, Satanic

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• Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.

  Pauly Shore

  Men, Thinking, Tv Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• They can fatten me up. They can give me a full body polish, dress me up, and make me beautiful again. They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. I no longer feel allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despite being one myself.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Dream, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1455, Scholastic Inc.

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• Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Commitment, Priorities, Suffering

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• We do all the things we can to essentially brainwash people into liking it before it actually comes out.

  Dave Anthony

  People

  "Call of Duty: gaming's role in the military-entertainment complex" by Simon Parkin, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2014.

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• We've been brainwashed into thinking that it takes more monies than it actually does to educate children. That's been one of the brainwash jobs.

  Marva Collins

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."

  Mark Hosler

  Nike, Real, Simple

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.

  John Shelton Reed

  Moving, Past, Yankees

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• Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Poetry, Roles, Manipulation

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• What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the most warped and blunted people I know are those who have gone through training of this sorts.

  Richard D. Ryder

  Children, School, Cutting

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• I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

  Dhani Harrison

  Dad, Play, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• Everybody in Canada seemed to listen to what they enjoyed, and nobody could tell them what to like, or what was the popular, or what was the In thing. Even today, it is very hard to brainwash a Canadian.

  Duke Ellington

  Canada, Today, Enjoyed

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• Me and Mr. Brainwash in Toronto signing his mural at Hard Candy Fitness Opening! #artforfreedom

  Madonna Ciccone

  Toronto, Signing, Hard Candy

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