Quotes About Indoctrination

Day after day, for more than seven weeks, the audience heard lurid stories of wild sex, biblical rantings, beaten babies, and armed fanatics ready to fight and die for their crazy notions of heaven and hell at the command of a madman.

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

Cause, celle-ci, jadis dans le nazisme, aujourd'hui dans les intégrismes religieux, abolissant tout esprit critique et alimentant le fanatisme. Le pire devient alors possible. Particulièrement réticents à l'embrigadement, les jeunes devraient, par chance, nous éviter la réédition de pareilles horreurs.

once he was cocooned by its embrace, he would be too indoctrinated to perceive it.

We have been indoctrinated to see the world through a politically correct lens.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

The Nazis saw the educational system in the first place as a means for inculcating the young with their own view of the world, still more as a means of training and preparing them for war.

There's no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.

People are so inoculated in childhood with small doses of Christianity that they seldom catch the real thing.

So what was this place in which people were rewarded for working out the answer the teacher wanted them to give, rather than the right answer?

All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one's earliest training.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

The kamikaze thus relied on combining state-of-the-art technology with state-of-the-art religious indoctrination.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

To inculcate Catholicism in the mind of the child until it is nine years of age is to ruin it forever for any other idea

The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.