Mental Captivity Quotes

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.

First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Intellectual slavery ... will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

Mind is a captive of the body.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you

The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it.

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

Just remember when you think you're free, the crack in your heart is me.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.