Quotes About Indoctrination 2
Quotes tagged as “indoctrination” (showing 31-60 of 121)
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
“It isn’t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state’s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government’s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They’ll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”
― Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
― Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
“Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through competition but through the myth of the social contract.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
― Jeffrey Tucker
“We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.”
― Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
― Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“Property taxes’ rank right up there with ‘income taxes’ in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where ‘income taxes’ are simply slavery using different words, ‘property taxes’ are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang’s turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. ‘Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??’ ‘Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??’ And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.”
― Larken Rose
― Larken Rose
“For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.”
― Stefan Molyneux
― Stefan Molyneux
“We hate simple lies we can easily detect but we love lies that are well crafted to the point we take them almost as reality, hard to detect lies that give sense to our lives. He is a messiah anyone who can concoct such lies and presents them to our imaginations”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“Patriotism is the product of successful systematic indoctrination.”
― Dane Whalen
― Dane Whalen
“I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Muslims are the first victims of Islam. […] To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him.”
― Ernest Renan
― Ernest Renan
“Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Every word that comes after “And the Lord told me. . . “is a pious lie”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self.”
― Criss Jami
― Criss Jami
“[E]very society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you’re being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence.”
― Iain M. Banks
― Iain M. Banks
“L’endoctrinement de la jeunesse dans les écoles était l’un des principaux piliers de ces États esclavagistes. En vérité, la principale différence entre les horreurs du XXème siècle et les despotismes plus anciens est que ces tyrannies modernes ont dû reposer sur un soutien des masses plus direct, et que par conséquent l’alphabétisation obligatoire et l’endoctrinement ont joué un rôle crucial.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
― Murray N. Rothbard
“If you aren’t destroying your enemies, it’s because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your enemies are. You have been brainwashed into believing you are your own enemy, and you are set against yourself. The enemy is laughing at you as you tear yourself to pieces. That is the most effective warfare an enemy can launch on his foes: confounding them.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true.” ~ Demo Cratia.”
― Farah Evers, Origins
― Farah Evers, Origins
“Beware of “don’ts”, “thou shalt” and the like. These are signals of programming attempts at your brain.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“Political indoctrination was geared towards producing activists. The propaganda image of the ideal child was a precocious political orator mouthing agitprop. Communism could not be taught from books, educational thinkers maintained. It had to be instilled through the whole life of the school, which was in turn to be connected to the broader world of politics through extra-curricular activities, such as celebrating Soviet holidays, joining public marches, reading newspapers and organizing school debates and trials. The idea was to initiate the children into the practices, cults and rituals of the Soviet system so that they would grow up to become loyal and active Communists.”
― Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
― Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
“All I cared about then was catching a glimpse of Chairman Mao. I turned my eyes quickly away from Liu to the front of the motorcade. I spotted Mao’s stalwart back, his right arm steadily waving. In an instant, he had disappeared. My heart sank. Was that all I would see of Chairman Mao? Only a fleeting glimpse of his back? The sun seemed suddenly to have turned gray. All around me the Red Guards were making a huge din. The girl standing next to me had just pierced the index finger of her right hand and was squeezing blood out of it to write something on a neatly folded handkerchief. I knew exactly the words she was going to use. It had been done many times by other Red Guards and had been publicized ad nauseam: “I am the happiest person in the world today. I have seen our Great Leader Chairman Mao!” Watching her, my despair grew. Life seemed pointless. A thought flickered into my mind: perhaps I should commit suicide?”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“On close analysis, it would seem that there is a possibility that we are god’s robots”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“Break your shackles and reach out to your freedom. Break to pieces whatever indoctrination and programming that holds you hostage. The world is yours. Get possession of it.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. He came to see his early failure as a lucky break, an accidental escape from a trap that had been set for him, and he was very trap-wary about institutional truths for the remainder of his time.”
― Robert M. Pirsig
― Robert M. Pirsig
“There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“You can spread an ideology only by bombs. Either by real bombs or love bombs (manipulation).”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“If someone can change your mind, he has won you over without raising his hand against you. This is the future of warfare.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
“Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.”
― A.E. Samaan
― A.E. Samaan
“If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity