Conspiracy Theory Quotes

• It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Morning, Believe

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• In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Political, Politics

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• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

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• A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.

  Mel Gibson

  Mean, Lines, Conspiracy

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• I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

  Andy Kindler

  Real, Believe, Conspiracy

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• Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

  Roger Cohen

  World, Conspiracy, Force

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• We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

  David Rockefeller

  Eugenics, World Government, Order

  "Common Sense 2009" by Larry Flynt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2009.

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• The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Views, Hands, People

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1995.

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• The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Comforting, Banking

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• You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Believe, People, Novelists

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 16), 1998.

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• People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.

  Bassem Youssef

  Believe, Order, People

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  World Government, Nwo, Bankers

  "The New Freedom". Illustrated & Biography Added,

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• One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.317, Hoover Press

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• I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

  Kathleen Norris

  Curiosity, Conspiracy, Natural

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, September, Blame

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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• The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Rights, Order

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• The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics

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• Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Saving, Faces, Conspiracy

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• Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

  Roger Cohen

  Conspiracy, Theory, Refuge

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Real, Exercise

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• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Animal, Patterns, Conspiracy

  "God's Still Dead" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 20, 2007.

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• Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, and evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Survival, Democracy, Littles

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• The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

  Damon Knight

  Believe, People, Desire

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• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Grateful, Past

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