While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the… — William Blum Copy Share Image
Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's biggest lie is about the election itself, the integrity of the election. He is alleging a massive conspiracy, thereby creating… — Brian Stelter Copy Share Image
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of… — Eric Flint Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on,… — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court -… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
To ensure that our views are credible, our brain accepts what our eye sees. To ensure that our views are positive, our… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm a very educated person and I do not care if somebody labels me a conspiracy theorist because it just means that… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
The left has promoted some wild conspiracy theories - namely that Trump had been groomed for decades by the Russians, and then,… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Criminal conspiracy requires not only that the conspirators know that a crime is going to be committed, but that they knowingly intend… — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder… — Jeremy Stoppelman Copy Share Image
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play… — John Sherman Cooper Copy Share Image
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the media circus which portrayed politicians as all-powerful figures, Kentbridge knew from experience the vast majority of US Government officials… — James Morcan, Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We supporters of the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine are now under a fierce attack from the far right and from… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image