Brainwashed Quotes

• I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Asking Why, Views

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary.

  Seth

  Believe, School, Media

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• When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

  Francis Crick

  Believe, Science, Discovery

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• Military cemeteries around the world are packed with brainwashed dead soldiers who were convinced God was on their side. America prays for God to destroy our enemies. Our enemies pray for God to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed! Somebody's wasting their time! Could it be.. everyone?

  George Carlin

  Military, America, Soldier

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• The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know any better.

  Lissie

  People, News, Conversation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
  The years thunder by.

  Sterling Hayden

  Lying, Years, Pyramids

  "Wanderer". Book by Sterling Hayden, 1963.

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• Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Thinking, Israel

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

  Tim Dorsey

  Beer, Thinking, Phones

  Tim Dorsey (2009). “Nuclear Jellyfish: A Novel”, William Morrow

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• We aren't born with the innate knowledge of how to "do" relationship. Even worse, we've been brainwashed by modern day society to look for and seek perfection, which leads to an ongoing state of frustration and dissatisfaction.

  Arielle Ford

  Frustration, Perfection, Looks

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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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• Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Jobs, Science, Thinking

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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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• There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Suicide, Kids, Dumb

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• The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Way, Born

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• 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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• After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.

  Clint Eastwood

  Motivation, Two, Feelings

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

  Powell Clayton

  Brainwashing, Preaching, Horde

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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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• I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money equals more success and more happiness, when ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Enjoy Life, Culture

  "Walking Away From the Money at Microsoft" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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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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• The issue here isn't whether every student is brainwashed, it's whether it is appropriate.

  David Horowitz

  Issues, Students, Appropriate

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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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• My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

  Steve Ballmer

  Children, Stupid, Kids

  "2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards", www.wired.com. December 26, 2006.

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• I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

  Woody Allen

  Religious, Envy, Religion

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• People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Matter, Knows

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