Conspiracy Quotes

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. (“Hagar the Horrible”)

The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.

Never attribute to Devil-worshipping conspiracies what opportunism, emotional instability, and religious bigotry are sufficient to explain.

If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. 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 flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some […]

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It […]

My thoughts as we landed in Toronto revolved around how little we have to travel nowadays to hear grotesquery presented as history. I had to go all the way to Yugoslavia in 1951 to hear that the workers of America envied the Tito twist on communism and were preparing a revolution to copy it. I […]

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people’s desire to believe that there is – some group of folks who know what they’re doing.

The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they’re the Warren Commission.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and dam foolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such […]