Conditioning is another fancy word for brainwashing, but…

Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds…

— Sue Thoele

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

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…

— Mortimer Adler

It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has…

— A. D. Coleman

If there is no word that means you don't have the concept. In North Korea they eliminate the words: depression, stress, dictatorship, human rights.…

— Park Yeon-mi

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…

— Kenneth Goff

“A cult is a group of people who share an obsessive devotion to a person or idea. The cults described in this book use…

— Margaret Smith

My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.

— Madlib

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…

— Jim Morrison

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

— Clarissa Ward

“I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in the business…

— Michael Grant

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…

— Dan Burt

“But there was nothing beautiful about the word "brainwash". To clean the brain. To strip it bare.”

— Gemma Malley

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,…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“Terrorism was like heroin – once a lonely, desperate soul was hooked on it, he or she became a fanatic – radicalized they call…

— Kenneth Eade