Brainwashed Quotes

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.”
― sylvia plath, The Bell Jar

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“No matter how bad your past is, you still don’t want it erased.”
― Paul Aertker, Brainwashed

“Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place.”
― James Burnham, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism

“People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“FRUITS AND NUTS


Keep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commercialized zombies,
And the TV junkies.
Keep throwing berries,
Twigs,
And nuts at them.
Until they wake up
To see what's up
And figure out why
We're laughing at 'em.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Psychosis means being locked up in a dark square and unable to find yourself.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“I want it, I have it and I still want it”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Those attached to narcissists are incapacitated by their own hunger for wealth, recognition, fame or romance.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Narcissism is the hand that pulls you out of the abyss and gives you hope.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Being trapped inside psychopathy is like being buried alive.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Necrophilous characters perform emotional surgeries on themselves to permanently remove whatever causes them pain”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Narcissists choose seclusion over taking off the mask. Close-ups disperse illusions and expose defects”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“You don’t Change the Abuser the Abuser Changes You”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Sadomasochism is often inconspicuous, masked by the narcissist’s enchanting exterior.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Narcissistic relationships oscillate from sadism to masochism, turning love into hate unstoppably”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“The narcissistic society misinterprets their leader’s power addiction for supremacy and fail to recognize that they nourish the beast by being exploited”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“the narcissist overpromises and underdelivers”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Narcissism is vacant of emotional warmth, and sympathy, stuffed with self-righteousness, pomposity, pretentious humility and superficial religiosity.”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“Who is Talking? You, or the Recording in your Head?”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“When tormented by the fear of injustice, egomania is adaptive, because the alternative is helplessness and hopelessness. Despair is not exactly a winning strategy and superiority is crucial in gathering one’s resources to keep fighting”
― Xanya Sofra Ph.D, Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy

“We are born smart, but made dumb”
― Jonathan Vilagi

“When you've been brainwashed to revere your chains, you will insult anyone talking about freedom from the chains.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The reality, known, researched, and manipulated by the merchandising media, is perceptually complex. Simplistic seeing and getting are perceptual constructs custom-manufactured only for overprotected, nongrowth-oriented children, highly vulnerable to manipulation, who eventually become the adult victims in a media-dominated society. …They are usually fantasy-defined by media as the "in-crowd." Their reality is usually that of the losers, the used, the persuaded, the patsies, the appropriated.”
― Wilson Bryan Key, The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere

“...for one lucid moment, the light came back to his eyes, and I thought the sight of me lying there, covered in the bodies of ten men, might be enough to shatter the armor that’d built up around his mind, deflecting any sensible thought.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly