The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

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

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

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

— Jethro Tull