Conspiracy Quotes - Page 16

• Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Government, Space

  "String Theories: We're Living In Cass Sunstein's World, Get Used To It" by Tom Siebert, www.mediapost.com. February 19, 2018.

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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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• As hideous and dumb as it sounds, I wouldn't be at all surprised by an invasion of Iraq on September II. I'll take a long shot bet on that.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Iraq, Dumb, Sound

  "Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations".

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• The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely a conspiratorial point of view.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Betrayal, War, Past

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• In fact, I point out that all the conspiracies in history - especially during the last 5000 years - are actually different aspects of the same conspiracy. Some people fixed on one aspect of the conspiracy, and say this is the problem, others say another thing, but the thing is all the conspirators work together. All the conspirators are part of the same operation. And this is what people find very reluctant.

  Eustace Mullins

  Years, People, Working Together

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• Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Believe, Political, Population

  Jeffrey Tucker (2012). “A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age”, p.319, Laissez Faire Books

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Trifles, Seems

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.42

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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, Theory

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

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• Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

  Umberto Eco

  New York, Order, Succeed

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• Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers

  David X. Cohen

  Blow, Long, Cartoon

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• Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes to assist you in turning into the gorgeous masterpiece you were born to be. Join the conspiracy to shower all of creation with blessings.

  Rob Brezsny

  Blessing, Illumination, Miracle

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• Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to the governance of God with him, and set afoot a conspiracy of freedom in truth among human beings. Having overcome death he remains among us. By relying on his word and presence we are enabled to reintegrate the little realm that makes up our life in the infinite rule of God. And that is the eternal kind of life. Caught up in his active rule, our deeds become an element in God’s eternal history. They are what God and we do together, making us part of his life and him a part of ours.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Together, Overcoming

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

  George Orwell

  Children, People, Normal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  Keith Olbermann

  Daughter, Apology, Glasses

  "Olbermann Compares Bush White House to Clinton's 'White House in Crisis'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. October 21, 2005.

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• There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

  Harry Browne

  Wisdom, Special, World

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• The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Land, House

  George Orwell (2004). “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.83, Penguin UK

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• Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Mathematical Equations, Panic, Firsts

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• We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.

  Wesley Clark

  Long, Information, Administration

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• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, People

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• When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has a powerful influence on interest rates and the price of government bonds. And that's why central banks long have tried to suppress the price of gold. Gold is the ticket out of the central banking system, the escape from coercive central bank and government power.

  James Rickards

  Powerful, Fighting, Government

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• The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Drinking, Air, Medicine

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• I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshoped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.

  Gail Collins

  Cousin, Believe, Thinking

  "The Power in a Photo". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2011.

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• Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Air, Cells

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no  concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they  that love one another for their opinionative concurrence, love  for their own sakes, not their Lord's.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Christian, Charity, Unions

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• ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cheating, Understanding, Oratory

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.170, e-artnow

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