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“Politicians see conspiracies everywhere”

— Peter F. Hamilton

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

— Michael Shermer

The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy.

— Nic Pizzolatto

“A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It’s the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the…

— David Grann

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they…

— Charles Stross

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A…

— Don DeLillo

“JONES IS BOTH symptom and cause of how knee-jerk, florid conspiracism has become rampant and normalized in America, a fixture of the way people…

— Kurt Andersen

Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

— Jon Meacham

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

— Umberto Eco

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

— E. L. Doctorow

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo,…

— Jacob M. Appel

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

— Bill Moyers