Conspiracy Theorist Quotes

“Conspiracy theorists, she knew, were paranoid by definition, and usually with good reason – they were indeed being watched, largely because they were standing on an upturned bucket, haranguing the sheeple about their wingnut delusions.”
― Mick Herron, Real Tigers

“conspiracy theorist: (n.) marginalized thinker with a better than average chance of being right on the money.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“Superstition is the opium of the ill-informed public. Conspiracy is the opium of the over-informed public.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“For months the previous year she had monitored message boards for suggestions of terrorist activity, and while she'd never entirely thrown off the suspicion that every other poster she encountered was an undercover cop, she'd grown used to eavesdropping on tin-hat conversations, from how the government was controlling the weather to the thought-experiments carried out on anyone who rang HMRC helplines. And all of these philosophers, without exception, were convinced they were under surveillance, their every online foray or mobile chat recorded and stored for future use. That this was probably true was an irrelevance, of course; they were simply caught in the same net as everyone else. Louisa had never trapped a terrorist; never stopped a bomb. She'd read it lot of discussions about 9/11, obviously, but contributions from structural engineers had been conspicuous by their absence. And while the helpline thing wag probably true, that was just the law of averages at work.”
― Mick Herron, Real Tigers

“Shallow scientific knowledge and poor theological understanding plus charisma equals to self anointed conspiracy theorist”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“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

“What is the nature of this confusing way station between birth and (usually) death accompanied by obliteration of identity we call home?

Planet, plane, simulation, hallucination, hell, heaven on
earth … The hypotheses as to this realm’s true character are as many as there are bored conspiracy theorists tapping away on crusty laptops in their parents’ basements.

But what if the childishly simple answer to our
conundrum is given away in this aphorism popularized in ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’: ‘Life is but a dream’?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience