Indoctrination Quotes

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Without cultural indoctrination, all of us would be atheists. Or, more specifically, while many may dream up their own gods as did our ancestors, they… — David G. McAfee
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes… — Kenny Smith
One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from of communication, there… — Robert H. Schuller
It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination ' — Dennis Prager
When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine. — Bertrand Russell
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people… — Daniel Pinchbeck
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about… — Angela Davis
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. — Robert B. Laughlin
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. — Bjorn Ulvaeus
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. — Doris Lessing
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. — Thomas Sowell
Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists.… — Ayelet Waldman
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers… — Doris Lessing
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in… — C.S. Lewis
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These… — Noam Chomsky
In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman.… — P.J. O'Rourke
No human heart is denied empathy. No religion can demolish that by indoctrination. No culture, no nation and nationalism - nothing can touch it because… — Dayananda Saraswati
Government Education is an oxymoron. It is indoctrination. Lay still, little sheep, or The Wolf will get you. — Rock Cowles
A True Eutopia is a world where only women exist. It would be a world free of war, violence, crime and indoctrination. And, it would… — Krista The Femitheist

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