Conspiracy Theory Quotes

“The populace fell for this trick every time because they didn’t believe the Masters existed, or that anyone could be that evil. The Masters made sure to assign the label of being a conspiracy theorist to those smart and observant enough to have figured it out and were trying to warn others. The populace would then disregard and ridicule the whistleblower because the Masters had programmed the populace to react harshly to individuals who this label was applied to. The population had been programmed to negatively react to many ideas and labels, but the conspiracy-theorist label was one of the most heavily programmed because it was paramount for the Masters to stay hidden behind the curtains. You can’t dethrone a king if you don’t know they exist.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Conspiracy adepts love story-tellers who want to exorcise their fear, mixing rational and irrational elements to construct a plausible narrative for people craving a meaningful decoding and a breathtaking clarification. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.”
― Peter J. Carroll, Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic

“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.”
― Roger Cohen

“People accept false conspiracy theories, since they prefer to dread ridiculous things than to ignore them, and they dismiss true conspiracy theories, since they prefer to ridicule dreadful things than to acknowledge them.”
― Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

“For anybody who's tracking actual predictive power, The Fringe will surprisingly keep being the place where reality is spotted first.”
― Bret Weinstein

“Frisland is a country that's so powerful it had itself removed off all world maps, so it could stealthily gain influence. It has an ancient ruler named King Anthony, better known as Susan B. Anthony. Susan really do be Anthony.

King Anthony began to reign over Frisland just as soon as Susan B. Anthony "died." At first, King Anthony was kept alive through crude cloning techniques, but over the last century, technology has advanced so far that now King Anthony exists as a spirit embedded in a hologram.”
― Jarod Kintz, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“conspiracy theorist: (n.) marginalized thinker with a better than average chance of being right on the money.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“How can science - which is slow and methodical, providing only an occasional breakthrough - compete with creative minds unfettered by facts?”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“[M]isbelief is enormously engaging and even fun for those who become deeply involved in its cleverly constructed alternate worlds. People who work in the gaming industry have drawn striking parallels between the structure of a conspiracy theory such as QAnon and the structure of popular alternate-reality multiplayer games.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“It is sad that our reality sounds like a conspiracy theory. Who would have ever thought that our very own people we elected, our very own government and media . They colluded with greedy people and are the ones behindour sufferings, unemployment, crime, troubles, killings, murder, poverty, infection, pandemic, sickness, failure and death . They made us think we are crazy and are making things up. Meanwhile they are the ones who are corrupt to the core. They are villains not victims. They create problems for us so they can try to come up with solutions that can make them profit.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Champagne Sheets by Stewart Stafford

The little girl who swam with sharks,
Receiver clutched in her dead hand,
A naked, lonely death in a sterile room,
Pill bottles silent witnesses to her end.

Did she jump, or did others push her?
Tabloid gossip for the masses to echo,
Livid without make-up in the mortuary,
Stripped of her last vestiges of privacy.

Her disturbed mother was never there,
She had no siblings or a nurturing father,
True love and children evaded her grasp,
A fragile shell, now a luminary immortal.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“It would be impossible for me, for instance, to debate the rights and wrongs of the Barcelona fighting with a Communist Party member, because no Communist—that is to say, no ‘good’ Communist—could admit that I have given a truthful account of the facts. If he followed his party ‘line’ dutifully he would have to declare that I am lying or, at best, that I am hopelessly misled and that anyone who glanced at the Daily Worker headlines a thousand miles from the scene of events knows more of what was happening in Barcelona than I do. In such circumstances there can be no argument; the necessary minimum of agreement cannot be reached.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the Tavistock Institute,
came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like the Beatles, had Theo Adorno
write their cult lyrics and compose all the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in
the context of "Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used
when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals writhing in pigswill. To
call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the language used in "rock lyrics.”
― John Coleman, Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300

“Superstition is the opium of the ill-informed public. Conspiracy is the opium of the over-informed public.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Kindness is braver than cruelty,
Reason is braver than conspiracy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sapionova: 200 Limericks for Students

“Only love can bring full freedom, all else brings half freedom. What is half freedom you ask? When in the name of freedom you imprison yourself to one side or sect, everything outside that sect seems evil. For example, fundamentalists choose the side of blind faith, and every act of reason seems like blasphemy - just like cold, sharp-tongue intellectuals choose the side of rationality even at the expense of humanity, and everything illogical seems outdated - or wait, I got a better one - so-called social activists often get so attached to their self-imposed identity of victimhood, that every person with a political, corporate, legal or bureaucratic background seems to appear as devil incarnate. This, my friend, is what I call "half freedom", which by the way, is far worse than the lack of freedom. And even though it manifests as an act of willful choice, when you get down to it, it's just plain old rigidity. And if we want to build a truly just, inclusive and progressive society, this hypocritical half-freedom won't do - what's needed is whole freedom - a kind of freedom that liberates the mind of all superstition as well as ignorant suspiciousness. It's time we realize, yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet. What this means is that, we gotta come together regardless of our background - the teacher, the scientist, the student, the copper, the politician, the civil servant, the entrepreneur, the economist, the janitor, the construction worker - every single person from every single walk of life must come forward surpassing all suspicious conspiracy, and contribute the best of their capacity in the making of a real civilized world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team of highly trained right-wing homosexuals working on behalf of Ronald Reagan was about to kill him.”
― James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

“A question was a sign of insanity to them.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Stages can be set anywhere and if they are set right, people won't even know that they are part of a play.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Superstition is not divinity, any more than phrenology is brain science. Conspiracy is not enlightenment, any more than astrology is astrophysics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Superstition is not divinity,
Phrenology is not brain science.
Astrology is not astrophysics,
Conspiracy is not enlightenment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Truth is electrifying,
Lies are tiresome.
Love is life-defining,
Hate is burdensome.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Triumphs & Superstitions (The Sonnet)

There is no perfect culture,
no culture is immune to fallacy.
Every culture, ancient or new,
has its triumphs as well as
superstitions and conspiracies.

Amateur America landed us on the moon,
it also bears moon landing conspiracy.
Ancient India gave us yoga and ayurveda,
it also suffers from chakrik stupidity.

Arabia and India bore the earliest minds
of astronomy, algebra and philosophy,
yet neither is impervious to fundamentalism,
quite like the adolescent colonial society.

Mark of a great culture is its inclusive spirit,
take away inclusion, and culture becomes gutter.
When intolerance reigns as law, centuries old and
millennia old civilizations suffer equally together.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations

“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Anatomy of Conspiracy
(Sonnet 2094-2095)

The biggest conspiracy
in the world is to make people
think that there is a conspiracy,

because when people believe
in conspiracy, they get paranoid,
and a paranoid population is the ideal
consumer for various soothsaying items,

from guns, bombs and nuclear weapons,
to crystals, chemtrails, chakras,
magnets, gemstones, ouija, racial purity,
and plots of land in the afterlife.

Now, some of these items and ideas may be
harmless, others downright villainous,
but they are all part and parcel of
an insecure primate's pursuit for control -
delusional though such control may be.

Conspiracy, superstition, conventional
or newage, it's all about control,
either self-inflicted or institutionalized -
you are searching for order where there
is none, so your brain cooks up one,

just to keep you satisfied - and you
start seeing faces in the clouds,
or patterns in your star charts.

Keep your mind open, just not so open
that your brain starts leaking -
an empty attic is a primate's olympus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“Those who practice intolerance as freedom, hate as holiness, conspiracy as wisdom, and prejudice as purity, are a lot of things, but not human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience