Conspiracy Quotes - Page 7

• A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

  John Avlon

  Wings, People, Political

  "Six questions for John Avlon". Interview with John Avlon, www.economist.com. May 16, 2010.

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• From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

  Winston Churchill

  Civilization, World, Growing

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• It is no accident that television has been dominated by a handful of corporate powers. Neither is it accidental that television has been used to re-create human beings into a new form that matches the artificial, commercial environment. A conspiracy of technological and economic factors made this inevitable and continue to.

  Jerry Mander

  Television, Environment, Economic

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• The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

  Chris Sanders

  Views, Use, Agendas

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• The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
  and I would not own one
  except I miss appointments without it.

  Brian Andreas

  Time, Freedom, Missing

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• There's really five companies who control 90% of what we read, see, and hear.

  Ted Turner

  Company, Five

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• Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

  Fritz Leiber

  Cosmos, Assuming, Enough

  Fritz Leiber (2011). “The Big Time”, p.77, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.

  John Quincy Adams

  Believe, Rights, Order

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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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• Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Problem, Secrecy, Cures

  Robert J. Sawyer (2010). “WWW: Watch”, p.254, Penguin

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• Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

  Seth Godin

  Culture, Pessimistic, Thanks

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• I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once lost, only blood will bring them back; and we of this church will, in order to keep the Church going forward, have more sacrifices to make, and more persecutions to endure than we have yet known. If the conspiracy comes here it will probably come in its full vigor and there will be a lot of vacant places among those who guide and direct, not only this government, but also this Church of ours.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Sacrifice, Government, Blood

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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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• The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World.

  Jimmy Savile

  Party, World, Body

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• For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Lying, Government Lies, America

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• Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stupidity, Looks

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• Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Addresses, Mail

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• Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

  Thomas More

  Men, Names, Rich

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• Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

  Frank Herbert

  Responsibility, Army, People

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.149, Penguin

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• An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.

  Allen Dulles

  Intelligence Services, Vehicle, Ideals

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• I think conspiracy theories have gotten more and more close to the mainstream because what you've got is a fragmentation of the media, where the media becomes much more polarized today, left and right.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Media, Today

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Records, Levels, Consciousness

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• Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

  Jim Henson

  Beautiful, Pigs, Ideas

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• Donald Trump's biggest lie is about the election itself, the integrity of the election. He is alleging a massive conspiracy, thereby creating a massive challenge for the news media.

  Brian Stelter

  Integrity, Lying, Challenges

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

  Adrian McKinty

  Animal, Dna, Patterns

  Adrian McKinty (2016). “The Sean Duffy Collection”, p.278, Serpent's Tail

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