Brainwashing Quotes

• If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. It really is public brainwashing and misinformation.

  Robert Kane Pappas

  Lying, Believe, People

  "Can the Corporate Media Turn Lies Into Truth?". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.scoop.co.nz. August 12, 2011.

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• 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

  Dmt, Drug, Mind Blowing

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

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• You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been.

  Morton T. Kelsey

  Views, Realizing, Point Of View

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• African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

  Herman Cain

  Running, Simple, Views

  "Herman Cain denies GOP's horrible history with blacks" by Roland Martin, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2011.

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• The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin

  Yana Toboso

  Paper, Lines

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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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• 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

  School, College, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

  David Korten

  Defense, Excess, Study

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• What about self-awareness, the mysterious ability of the brain to reflect upon itself? Self-awareness can be tampered with by brainwashing, psychoactive drugs, electrical stimulation, political or religious propaganda, even advertising. A lifetime in front of a TV set may be the equivalent of a self transplant.

  Chet Raymo

  Religious, Self, Political

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• 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

  Self Confidence, Emotional, Abuse

  "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.

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• All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Children, Teach, Educate

  Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Children, Religion

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• The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

  Sean Durkin

  Long, Way, Subtle

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

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• For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Practice, Tasks

  "The Chomsky Reader". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1987.

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• 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

  Real, Years, People

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• 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

  Guilt, Conflict, Confession

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• We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

  Clarissa Ward

  Different, Needs, Form

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• 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

  Teacher, Memories, Teaching

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• 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

  Government, Political, United States

  PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY (1964). “A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO”

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• Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Robots, Roles

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• 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

  People, Dollars, Cost

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, People, Logical

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• I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made cooking seem much more complicated than it is, and part of that comes from watching cooking shows on television-we've turned cooking into a spectator sport. ...My wife and I both work, and we can get a very nice dinner on the table in a half hour. It would not take any less time for us to drive to a fast-food outlet and order, sit down, and bus our table.

  Michael Pollan

  Sports, Nice, Thinking

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• 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

  School, Skills, Long

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• The answer is for all of us to create our own systems, our own ideas, because vibrant independent ideas will trump this corporate, plastic Borg, this brainwashing they're trying to push. I mean, banning 'father' and 'mother,' banning the word 'husband' and 'wife,' I mean that's so cultic that if I'd of been told ten years ago they were gonna ban words like that, I wouldn't have believed it. They do it with straight faces. I mean, has the left, and of course the controlled-right as well, have they gone collectively insane on a control-freak bent? Or, is there a strategy?

  Alex Jones

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Source: noworldorder.com

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