Words matter. These are the best Conspiracy Quotes from famous people such as Morgan Neville, Randolph Bourne, Ted Lieu, Mollie Hemingway, Jeremy Rifkin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who’s the person you’d rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it’s a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Donald Trump believes in conspiracies. He has thin skin and is impulsive.
Not only did corporate media not condemn leading Democrats’ refusal to accept the results of the 2016 election, the media were also super spreaders of wild conspiracy theories about how Trump and Russia colluded to steal the election from Clinton.
The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
People love conspiracy theories.
So Pakistan is a country that I’m very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.
I don’t believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don’t believe in Big Foot.
The United States has already experienced the danger of flawed refugee vetting as well as the potential for refugees to be radicalized once they are here. In 2011, two Iraqi refugees were arrested in Kentucky for conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad in support of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the predecessor to ISIL.
For 217 years, the whole history of the country has been based on conspiracies, coups, assassinations. We conspire to destroy it, never to build it.
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
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.
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They’re crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it’s unfolding, or life as it’s unfolding.
I don’t believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate.
Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it’s a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate.
Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet.
Sometimes we look at patterns, and we look at things that are happening, and sometimes you can’t dismiss everything as a conspiracy.
I really can’t abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That’s certainly true of most of what’s happened in Russia under Putin.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
I like ‘X-Files’-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.
I think gas prices are a conspiracy.
In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
I’m a conspiracy theorist. I can’t help but look at the lunar landing and go, ‘We didn’t go to the moon.’ We never went there. My dad worked for NASA on the Apollo missions, and I’ve always felt it’s been fake since I was a kid.
Whether it’s their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist’s no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.
Conspiracy theories are good to look at and you can find yourself Googling things until 3 A.M.!
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory.
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
Voter fraud is a reality in American elections, but it is typical of the candidate to confuse anecdote with data and turn allegation into conspiracy.
I don’t think there are beautiful women out there trying to lure men into any kind of conspiracy. I think people are out there just trying to meet someone new and interesting and live in the real world.
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy’s heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it’s the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That’s what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn’t think that this is about making money, then they’re crazy.
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.
Dan Brown is a character from ‘Foucault’s Pendulum!’ I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations – the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
I’m sorry, I just don’t want to be a part of this conspiracy to make women feel pressured about their bodies.
Criminal conspiracy requires not only that the conspirators know that a crime is going to be committed, but that they knowingly intend to help each other commit the crime – and then commit certain overt acts in connection with that conspiracy.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are part of a cozy conspiracy of silence. There are innumerable instances of how politicians as a class let each other off the hook after kicking up some dust in parliament.
The peddling of anti-Semitic stereotypes is an insult to a community that has suffered throughout history from the use of such imagery to create the myth of ‘the great Jewish conspiracy.’
If you look at ‘The X-Files’ generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not ‘mythology’ episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder’s sister. They deal with what I would call the ‘saga’ of ‘The X-Files.’
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
I’ve always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.
There’s a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.
There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!
I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the ’60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It’s easy to believe in.
Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).
For people of color – especially African Americans – the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.
