Brainwashing Quotes

Socialists have infiltrated our schools, our law courts, our government, our MEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS. ... the Socialist movement is made up of a relatively small number of people who have developed the TECHNIQUE OF INFLUENCING large masses of people to a VERY HIGH DEGREE

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Suppressing ideas never makes them go away.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world.

Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected quotations from the works of Lenin and a discussion of the lessons to be learned from the readings. It is very much like a church service.

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

MKULTRA