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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Choose to fight physical infection or not, your body will do it for you, but as for psychological contaminations, you have to fight them yourself - the faculties are already carved in your brain circuits, but you have to be willing to use them, defying the comforting fantasies of convention, that's how an ape evolves into human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I mean, which conspiracy theories haven't come true at this point?”
― Elon Musk

“Not all tugs on our attention are benign—far from it on today’s digitized High Seas. It should be obvious, even to those skeptical of most conspiracy theories, that there are individuals and entities ‘from the Deep’ who seek to manipulate our focus for their gain.

They exploit our fears, insecurities and desires, bombarding us with negativity and hopelessness, and rarely, if ever, looking on the bright side. Coincidence? I think not.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“When you step back from it, you realize that the whole
idea of so many fearful conspiracies proliferating like
harmful bacteria everywhere isn’t just surreal or overkill, it’s ludicrous.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“People conspire, that's not a theory.”
― Michael Palmero

“In maintaining a faulty, reason-based mindset,
‘truthers’ do a number of disservices to themselves, their message and their followers here in this subjective construct in which objectivity is merely a myth of overweening ‘science.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Truthing’ inevitably leads to disempowerment in which people, lured by the false promise of solutions, are tricked into stepping outside themselves again and again for answers to their personal and collective dilemmas—when the only way out is in.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“By using a toolkit of brainwashing tactics for tapping into mimetic desire in order to energize the power of collective belief in … whatever (a ‘scientific’ model, a version of ‘history,’ a conspiracy theory, etc.), ‘truthers’ aren’t discovering ‘truth’ … They’re just making shit real.

That, my friends, in a sound bite, is how this world, on personal as well as communal levels, manifests.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“An analogy for conceptualizing how ‘truthing’ functions is that research in the Matrix might be said to merely create rabbit holes that go ever deeper into … the Matrix.

In a mind-bending ‘aikido’ move, the Matrix makes it so that the closer ‘truthers’ and other mundane researchers feel they are to the ‘truth,’ the further they technically are from it.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“It's only after the conspiracy theorist gets it right a few times that he becomes so drunk on conspiracies that he can barely see straight.”
― Criss Jami