It’s like waking up from a bad dream going into a nightmare day after day. I want everybody to stop harassing me, because this is cyberbullying to me and it’s gone way out of hand. – Maatje Benassi US Army reservist on becoming target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place her at beginning of coronavirus pandemnic, saying she brought disease to China.
A sewer of bigotry and vile conspiracy theories that threatens democracy and our planet – this cannot possibly be what the creators of the internet had in mind. – Sacha Baron Cohen Attacking big internet companies that promote fake news and bigotry.
Let’s talk about some conspiracy things. Let’s go back to the grassy knoll. Who actually shot J.R.? – Sacha Baron Cohen Ali G, Da Ali G Show.
Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence. – George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman, Maxims for Revolutionists.
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. – Jeff Greenfield
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. – James A. Baldwin
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. – Antony Beevor
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. – Jeremy Bentham
It’s getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington – witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It’s a real set of carnival sideshows. – Andrew Rosenthal
Whenever you’re faced with an explanation of what’s going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. – Charles Krauthammer
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. – Cynthia McKinney
In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins. – Bernie Sanders
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it’s really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East. – Gail Collins
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. – Dorothy Day
So Pakistan is a country that I’m very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own. – Peter L. Bergen
I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the ’60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald. – Patti Davis
It’s not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It’s a right-wing conglomerate. It’s more sophisticated, it’s well-financed, it’s well known. – David Brock
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 Carre
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. – Joseph Sobran
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn’t care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy. – John Sherman Cooper
One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. – Louis Stokes