Conspiracy Theory Quotes - Page 4

• Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

  John McCain

  Government, Administration, Conspiracy

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• The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  People, Conspiracy, Theory

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• If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

  Noam Chomsky

  Downtown, Agendas, Four

  "Who Runs America?". Interview with Adrian Zupp, chomsky.info. April 1-8, 1999.

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• There’s a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many.

  Jason Ritter

  Believe, Conspiracy, Theory

  "Blair Underwood & Jason Ritter talk 'The Event'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 18, 2010.

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• One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• The central question for American politics right now is how did the country that elected Barack Obama elect Donald Trump. There's a lot to what Ta-Nehisi says about the racial reaction and backlash. And the power and the force and ultimately the success. The man who was selling this racist conspiracy theory about the first black President's birth: that's what launched him into a political career that ended up getting him elected the President of the United States. That is an absolutely remarkable fact.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Men, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Mistake, Land

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• It's no accident that there is a nexus between Trump, Roger Stone and Infowars and Alex Jones. It's very much an Infowars presidency in many ways. The President is a conspiracy theorist. He has reliably touted conspiracy theories. It's a core part of how he processes the world epistemically. That is deeply, deeply dangerous, and disturbing.

  Chris Hayes

  President, World, Conspiracy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The [Donald's] Trump war on the press continues. Tonight, the national cost of a conservative media bubble, now featuring alien conspiracy theories. And about those Obamacare headlines.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Media, Obamacare

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Years, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Thinking, Political, Belief

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• The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false.

  Enver Masud

  Conspiracy, Theory, Conclusion

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• At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

  Myla Goldberg

  Morning, Nice, Home

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• Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

  Nick Cohen

  Religious, Attitude, Islamic

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• 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.

  Peter Bergen

  Country, Pakistan, Conspiracy

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• Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, America, People

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• The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

  Karl Popper

  Asking, Conspiracy, Theory

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.204, Routledge

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• The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Determination, World, Shows

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• Maybe we're all a little too desperate these days for a simple formula to explain how our safe world came unhinged. That, as much as anything, may explain one of the more enduring conspiracy theories of the moment, the notion that we are about to send a quarter of a million American soldiers to war for the sake of Israel.

  Bill Keller

  War, Simple, Israel

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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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• If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.

  Kate O'Beirne

  New York, Dark, Thinking

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 17, 2006.

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• The first time I came to the Comedy Festival some nutcase shot a bunch of people in Tasmania. I thought, 'Oh, that's just Tasmania.' The second time I came, some nut shot up Columbine High School. Now I'm here again, and another nut just shot up a high school in Minnesota. If you can't see the connection between me playing the Comedy Festival and mass murder, you're no good at conspiracy theories.

  Rich Hall

  School, Nuts, People

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• My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

  Ali Larter

  Dream, Fun, Drama

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

  Cass Sunstein

  Extremist Groups, Light, Government

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• It is beyond belief that someone could come to the launch of a report on antisemitism in the Labour party and espouse such vile conspiracy theories about Jewish people...

  Ruth Smeeth

  Party, People, Belief

  "Jeremy Corbyn launches antisemitism report amid controversy" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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