Joss Whedon Quotes

The Church warns against the attempts to use the scientific and technological progress for establishing control over the inner world of the personality, for creating any technologies making it possible to infuse and manipulate the human consciousness or sub-consciousness.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

I have no interest in trying to manipulate people's emotions or opinions.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

The number one rule of today's marketing – the key secret of those who seek to control your beliefs and habits in order to take your money, your votes, your time or whatever else it is they desire from you – is to always keep in mind that nobody really believes they can be manipulated.

Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilized is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are, you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.

We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.