Joost Meerloo

Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.…

— Joost Meerloo

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

— Joost Meerloo

He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master…

— Joost Meerloo

Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the…

— Joost Meerloo

Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

— Joost Meerloo

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

— Joost Meerloo

Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach…

— Joost Meerloo

The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They…

— Joost Meerloo

Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

— Joost Meerloo

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

— Joost Meerloo

The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life…

— Joost Meerloo

The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It…

— Joost Meerloo

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than…

— Joost Meerloo

Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it…

— Joost Meerloo

It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.

— Joost Meerloo

The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual.…

— Joost Meerloo

In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely…

— Joost Meerloo