Brainwashing Quotes - Page 2

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  William T. Wiley

  Beauty, School, Kids

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• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.

  Carl Paladino

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Stir National Fury". "Tell Me More" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. October 12, 2010.

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• 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

  Art, America, Fake

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• What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.

  Arianna Huffington

  War, Might, Succeed

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• Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.

  R. D. Laing

  Children, War, Dirty

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

  Murray Rothbard

  Education, Teacher, Religious

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• 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

  Letting Go, Giving Up, People

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• Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Marijuana, Communism, Communist

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• The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hypnosis, Behavior Change, Drug

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.258, Random House

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• You have to be very careful introducing the truth to the black man, who has never previously heard the truth about himself. The black brother is so brainwashed that he may reject the truth when he first hears it. You have to drop a little bit on him at a time, and wait a while to let that sink in before advancing to the next step

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Men, Waiting

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• 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

  Principles, Noise, Way

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• Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Thinking, Brave, Coward

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

  Deborra-Lee Furness

  Believe, Son, Thinking

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

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• I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Specials”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Artist, Media, Voice

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• 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

  People, Coincidence, Victim

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• To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art form. It's a film that is revolting against the old established language of cinema that had been brainwashing the people for decades. It is a film that is trying to find ways to use sound and image differently.

  Tamer El Said

  Art, People, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.

  Payam Akhavan

  Evil, Preparation, Violence

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The key to breaking the Taliban taboo against women and the cultural brainwashing that the Taliban imposed upon many Afghans is to get women back into the workforce.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Keys, Workforce, Taboo

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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

  Rights, People, Desire

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Bill Maher

  Brain, Needs, Littles

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• I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

  Steve Ballmer

  Kids, Ipods, Google

  "The sleeping giant goes on the offensive". Interview with Telis Demos, archive.fortune.com. March 29, 2006.

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• 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

  Teaching, Trying, Church

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• American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.

  Dan Burt

  Country, Powerful, Moving

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• 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

  Justice, Diversity, Challenges

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