Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could. P J O’Rourke
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own. John le Carré
While we may blame the Internet for the ease with which conspiracy theories proliferate, the net is really much more culpable for the way it connects everything to almost everything else. The hypertext link, as we used to call it, allows any fact or idea to become intimately connected with any other. Douglas Rushkoff
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me – not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy. Oliver Stone
The problem with conspiracies is that they rot internally. Robert Heinlein
I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba’ath Party central committee: perhaps a hundred men. Suddenly the doors are locked and Saddam, in the chair, announces a special session. Into the room is dragged an obviously broken man, who begins to emit a robotic confession of treason and subversion, that he sobs has been instigated by Syrian and other agents. As the (literally) extorted confession unfolds, names begin to be named. Once a fellow-conspirator is identified, guards come to his seat and haul him from the room. The reclining Saddam, meanwhile, lights a large cigar and contentedly scans his dossiers. The sickness of fear in the room is such that men begin to crack up and weep, rising to their feet to shout hysterical praise, even love, for the leader. Inexorably, though, the cull continues, and faces and bodies go slack as their owners are pinioned and led away. When it is over, about half the committee members are left, moaning with relief and heaving with ardent love for the boss. (In an accompanying sequel, which I have not seen, they were apparently required to go into the yard outside and shoot the other half, thus sealing the pact with Saddam. I am not sure that even Beria or Himmler would have had the nerve and ingenuity and cruelty to come up with that.) Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations’ political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr and George W Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine’s memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet. James Morcan, The Ninth Orphan
So how can we determine what’s real and what’s not? We can’t. We can just pick and choose what we want to believe and rationalize it as best we can. Reality, after all, is basically a movie projected inside our heads. It’s based on the colors our senses permit us to see, the sounds they permit us to hear and whatever else our brains let slip through the gates. But outside our limited senses, surrounding us, there is, unquestionably, a much greater reality, a universe we live in but cannot see. Well, most of us, anyway. Out there, in the dark, All Things Are Possible. Richard B Spence, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
36,467. Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It’s part of our DNA. That’s why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things. Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground
Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence. Eric Flint, 1636: The Saxon Uprising
In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story. Gary Hopkins
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy. Zbigniew Brzezinski
New Rule: Conspiracy theorists who are claiming that we didn’t really kill Bin Laden must be reminded that they didn’t think he did the crime in the first place. Come on, nutjobs, keep your bullshit straight: the towers were brought down in a controlled demolition by George W Bush to distract attention from Hawaii, where CIA operatives were planting phony birth records so that a Kenyan named Barack Obama could someday rise to power and pretend to take out the guy we pretended took out the Towers. And I know that's true because I just got it in an e-mail from Trump. Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground. Germaine Greer
The creation of the Federal Reserve system was about more than just money. Some refer to it as the secret birth of a criminal conspiracy to rob the American middle class of its hard-earned wealth. Others believe it to be part of an attempt to bring the world under the control of a shadowy international elite that calls itself the New World Order. Monopoly Men: Federal Reserve Fraud, 1998
There is indeed a global conspiracy going on, and why it is being carried out and concealed is to control the global money system, and hence control of all other subsequent systems of importance down the food chain. Such as governance and media. It is important to understand that control of the global money system has been achieved through control of the global central banking system. And this system is a privately run enterprise. It is a private business that runs for a profit, and is owned and operated by wealthy international banking dynasties such as the Rothschilds, the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The Big Picture – FINAL
I was secretive – indeed as furtive – as any conspirator. Frank Verderlip
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Adam Smith
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776
Why was Frank Olson killed? ... Frank Olson worked at Fort Detrick, Maryland ... Two weeks before his death Frank went to a three-day conference with some of his colleagues and came home a changed man. Vincent Ruwet, Frank’s boss, told the Olsons he believed that Frank was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Just before Thanksgiving he took Frank to New York for treatment. While in New York Frank shared a hotel room with Dr Robert Lashbrook, a CIA scientist. Nearly a week passed before Frank’s family finally heard from him. Frank Olson was dead at the age of forty-three. Investigators determined that he had either jumped or fallen to his death. The night manager of the hotel also found Frank’s death suspicious. Unsolved Mysteries
Years later a government commission was formed to investigate past abuses committed by the CIA. The official report made mention of a scientist who had plunged to his death from a hotel room ten days after being dosed with LSD. That scientist turned out to be Frank Olson. Over the next year and a half the Olson family received a formal apology from President Ford and a cheque from the government for $750,000. ibid.
The laced drinks were served to eight of the ten scientists present. Some of them including Frank Olson were not warned about the test. Within an hour the LSD took effect. When [Sid] Gottlieb told the group their drinks had been spiked with LSD, Frank Olson became very angry. Then Frank made his fatal trip to New York supposedly suffering from a nervous breakdown. ibid.
Open-eyed conspiracy. The Tempest 2010 starring Helen Mirren & Felicity Jones & Chris Cooper & Russell Brand & Reeve Carney & Tom Conti & Alan Cumming & Djimon Hounsou & Alfred Molina & Ben Whishaw et al, director Julie Taymor, Ariel
In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot. Czesław Miłosz
On the 7th of July 2005 London was hit by a series of explosions ... The story presented by the media of that tragic day is nothing more than a conspiracy. A conspiracy used by police, government and the media to cover up a far more sinister truth. The story we’ve been told is as follows: four British Muslim men exploded backpack bombs as part of the continuing jihad from Al Qaeda cells. The suicide bombings were an attack on Britain. Eye on Britain: The Search for Truth