Joost Meerloo Quotes

• He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.

  Joost Meerloo

  Opportunity, Political, Mind

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• Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control.

  Joost Meerloo

  Confusing, Mind, Ingredients

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• La continua intrusión en nuestras mentes de los martilleantes ruidos de los argumentos y la propaganda puede provocar dos tipos de reacciones. Puede conducir a la apatía y la indiferencia, a la reacción de no me importa, o a un deseo más intenso de estudiar y comprender. Por desgracia, la primera reacción es la más popular.

  Joost Meerloo

  Two, Differences, Mind

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• Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and implant a fixed pattern in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda technique, and the polls [are] a verification of the temporary successful action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind.

  Joost Meerloo

  Successful, Cells, Brain

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• Sin embargo, el enigma y la duda ya son delitos en el Estado totalitario. La mente abierta a las preguntas está abierta a la disidencia. En el régimen totalitario, la mente dudosa, inquisitiva e imaginativa tiene que ser suprimida. Al esclavo totalitario sólo se le permite memorizar, salivar cuando suena la campana.

  Joost Meerloo

  Doubt, Mind, Bells

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• Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

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  Keys, Mind, Technique

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• La huida del estudio y de la conciencia es demasiado frecuente en un mundo que lanza demasiadas imágenes confusas al individuo. Por el bien de nuestra democracia, basada en la libertad y el individualismo, tenemos que volver al estudio una y otra vez. De lo contrario, podemos convertirnos en víctimas fáciles de un ataque verbal bien planeado contra nuestras mentes y nuestras conciencias.

  Joost Meerloo

  Freedom, Confusing, Mind

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• It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.

  Joost Meerloo

  Compulsión

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• The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.

  Joost Meerloo

  Hate, War, Insecure

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• The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

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  Lying, War, Emotional

  Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo (2015). “The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing”, p.117, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.

  Joost Meerloo

  Men, Emotional, Atheism

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• Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

  Joost Meerloo

  Successful, Target Audience, Mind

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• . . los hechos bien publicitados son siempre la perdición para los controladores de mentes.

  Joost Meerloo

  Mind, Facts, Wells

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• En mi propia experiencia, me ha sorprendido ver lo poco realistas que son las bases de la opinión política en general. Sólo en raras ocasiones he encontrado a una persona que haya elegido un partido político concreto -democrático o totalitario- mediante el estudio y la comparación de principios.

  Joost Meerloo

  Party, Political Opinions, Atheism

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• Between two beings there is always the barrier of words. Man has so many ears and speaks so many languages. Should it nevertheless be possible to understand one another? Is real communication possible if word and language betray us every time? Shall, in the end, only the language of tanks and guns prevail and not human reason and understanding?

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  Time, Real, Communication

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• Pavlov's findings were that some animals learned more quickly if rewarded (by affection, by food, by stroking) each time they showed the right response, while others learned more quickly when the penalty for not learning was a painful stimulus.

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  Pain, Learning, Animal

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• If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex of its development; if they can be made to understand that the conflicts and contradictions of society can only be resolved by scientific long-range planning-then we will succeed in maintaining what civilization we have and drive onward to greater culture.

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  Confused, Men, Civilization

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