The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
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.
In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.
We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The family that prays together. . . is brainwashing their children.
The line between education and brainwashing is paper thin
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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.
The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.
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.
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.
