Conspiracy theories have always fascinated people. They live in the space between fact and imagination, between what we see and what we fear. You can see them as entertainment, warnings, or reflections of public distrust, the world of hidden agendas and unsolved mysteries captures attention like nothing else.
- “A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.” — Mark Twain
- “Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.” — Roger Cohen
- “Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory to no theory at all.” — Christopher Hitchens
- “Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by ignorance.” — Penn Jillette
- “The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” — J. Edgar Hoover
- “History is not happenstance. It is conspiratorial.” — George Carlin
- “Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.” — George Bernard Shaw
- “You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous that someone somewhere doesn’t already believe it.” — Robert Anton Wilson
- “A good conspiracy is unprovable. If you can prove it, they messed up somewhere.” — Mel Gibson
- “The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.” — Douglas MacArthur
- “Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.” — Jeremy Bentham
- “Excessive secrecy feeds conspiracy theories and reduces public confidence.” — John McCain
- “Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.” — Henry Louis Gates
- “To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, not what they say.” — René Descartes
- “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” — Benjamin Disraeli
- “The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.” — Felix Frankfurter
- “An invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, that no one dares speak above their breath when they condemn it.” — Woodrow Wilson
- “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” — Edward R. Murrow
- “When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it.” — Frédéric Bastiat
- “The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” — Vladimir Lenin
- “The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- “The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one.” — Adolf Hitler
- “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” — Edmund Burke
- “All war is a racket.” — Smedley Butler
- “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton
- “The chief tool of statesmen is deceit.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.” — John Philpot Curran
- “Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” — Edward Bernays
- “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” — Maximilien Robespierre
- “There are only two forces that unite men: fear and interest.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
- “He who controls the past controls the future.” — George Orwell
- “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” — George Orwell
- “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” — James A. Garfield
- “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” — Voltaire
- “Wherever there is power, there is resistance.” — Michel Foucault
- “The most successful tyranny is not the one forced on us, but the one we come to love.” — Aldous Huxley
- “The surest way to work up a crusade is to convince people they are being attacked.” — H. L. Mencken
- “Most people prefer a comforting lie to an uncomfortable truth.” — Anonymous
- “People will believe anything if it’s repeated enough.” — Joseph Goebbels
- “The first casualty when war comes is truth.” — Hiram Johnson
- “The freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” — A. J. Liebling
- “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” — Ron Paul
- “Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser.” — Kurt Vonnegut
- “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire
- “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” — Frederick Douglass
- “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy so he cannot fathom our real intent.” — Sun Tzu
- “The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko
- “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” — Winston Churchill
- “Truth is not only violated by falsehood, it is equally outraged by silence.” — Henri Amiel
- “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” — Charles Kettering
- “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” — Howard Zinn
- “To investigate truth is to expose deceit.” — Anonymous
- “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, but the myth.” — John F. Kennedy
- “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” — Voltaire
- “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” — George Orwell
- “The law is a conspiracy against the deprived, the weak, and the poor.” — William Blake
- “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde
- “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde
- “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell
- “He who allows oppression shares the crime.” — Desiderius Erasmus
- “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” — William Shakespeare
- “The greatest truths are the simplest.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The truth is rarely welcomed by those who profit from the lie.” — Anonymous
- “A secret ceases to be a secret when it is known to more than one person.” — Samuel Johnson
- “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.” — Benjamin Franklin
