History Quotes / ConspiracyTheorist

!!Quotes by conspiracy theorists

->''"I'm not crazy. [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Whatever it is they're guarding so carefully]], I need to be able to prove that it's real."''
-->--'''Joe Brody,''' ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}''

->''"''[Armond]'' White doesn't necessarily practice film criticism, although what he writes is almost always based on his real or imagined characterization of what other critics have already written. The movie itself sometimes gets lost in White's internal monologue as he rages against [[WindmillCrusader some chimerical critical consensus]]."''
-->--'''Jim Emerson'''

->''So, to wrap things up, there’s only one conclusion one can draw from all this top quality research. TV’s Jimmy Savile is an immortal energy vampire who’s been active since the beginning of time under a multitude of names, from Vlad the Impaler to the Knights Templar. Sometime in the sixties, he was summoned to our time in a ceremony by Mick Jagger and the Beatles, using the arcane, Satanic wisdom of Aleister Crowley, from where he procured children for the elite, via the Leeds Hell Mouth, which acted as an energy portal for the Jewish, Masonic vampires that enslave our world. It’s pretty obvious when you look at the facts.''

->''Conspiracy theories represent a known glitch in human reasoning. The theories are of course occasionally true, but their truth is completely uncorrelated with the believer's certainty. For some reason, sometimes when people think they've uncovered a lie, they raise confirmation bias to an art form. They cut context away from facts and arguments and assemble them into reassuring litanies. And over and over I've argued helplessly with smart people consumed by theories they were sure were irrefutable, theories that in the end proved complete fictions.''
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''

->''Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the opponents of "conspiracy" analysis who profess to believe that all events- at least in government -are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning.''

->''Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the [[DyingLikeAnimals opponents of "conspiracy" analysis]] who profess to believe that all events- at least in government -are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning.''

-->-- '''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/jimmy-savile-and-david-icke-all-the-pieces-matter/ Stuart Millard]]'''

->''"''[Armond]'' White doesn't necessarily practice film criticism, although what he writes is almost always based on his real or imagined characterization of what other critics have already written. The movie itself sometimes gets lost in White's internal monologue as he rages against [[WindmillChaser some chimerical critical consensus]]."''

->''"''[Armond]'' White doesn't necessarily practice film criticism, although what he writes is almost always based on his real or imagined characterization of what other critics have already written. The movie itself sometimes gets lost in White's internal monologue as he rages against some chimerical critical consensus. "''

->"''So, I've figured {{New Jersey}} out. It's a cult. Why is it a cult, you may ask? WELL, yesterday, I went to the "Sunset beach"; as beautiful as it was watching the sun set over the ocean, EVERYONE was there. I mean everyone.\\
It was just a normal day, no carnivals or anything. New Jersey just gathers at a single beach to worship the sun for giving them tanning privileges.\\
And you thought you mother fuckers could hide the truth.''"
--> -- '''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Trollvorlord]]''', ''[[Blog/{{Bronyism}} -Trollvorlord]]''

-->-- '''Bill Maher'''

->''Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the [[DyingLikeAnimals opponents of "conspiracy" analysis]] who profess to believe that all events- at least in government -are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning.''

->''There are, of course, [[ShownTheirWork good conspiracy analysts]] and bad conspiracy analysts, just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of "paranoia." First, [[YouFailLogicForever he stops with the cui bono]]; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so. (Perhaps the wackiest example of this was the British journalist Douglas Reed who, seeing that the result of Hitler's policies was the destruction of Germany, concluded, without further evidence, that therefore Hitler was a conscious agent of external forces who deliberately set out to ruin Germany.) Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy. Instead of seeing that there are several power blocs trying to gain control of [[TheGovernment government]], sometimes in conflict and sometimes in alliance, he has to assume - again without evidence - that a small group of men controls them all, and only seems to send them into conflict.''
->--'''Murray N. Rothbard''' "[[http://mises.org/daily/2809 The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited"]]

-> "The powers that be are in fact watching you at all hours and tracking your every move, but only because they're hoping you'll slip on the ice and drop your groceries again."
--> -- ''TheOnion''

->"If you closely analyze the explosions here, here, and here, you’ll notice that this is a controlled demolition. And if you take all segments and the first letter of each city that each segment was shot in, it spells out the word "CNHOS", which means nothing but it clearly reveals that the government has been infiltrated by TheIlluminati, whose informant, as we all know, is none other than [[StarWars Chewbacca]] and the author of the [[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban third]] ''HarryPotter'' book, which alludes to an alien plot to destroy the world, but not just any alien, but this alien, [[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial this alien]], and this alien. And who is the only human being who can save us from this GovernmentConspiracy? NicolasCage."
--> -- '''RayWilliamJohnson''' on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggg3C87UVCY this environmentalist ad]] in the episode aptly titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yEXai8MoQ&t=3m13s "Conspiracy Theory"]]

->''There are, of course, [[ShownTheirWork good conspiracy analysts]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch bad conspiracy analysts]], just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of "paranoia." First, [[YouFailLogicForever he stops with the cui bono]]; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so. (Perhaps the wackiest example of this was the British journalist Douglas Reed who, seeing that the result of Hitler's policies was the destruction of Germany, concluded, without further evidence, that therefore Hitler was a conscious agent of external forces who deliberately set out to ruin Germany.) Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy. Instead of seeing that there are several power blocs trying to gain control of [[TheGovernment government]], sometimes in conflict and sometimes in alliance, he has to assume - again without evidence - that a small group of men controls them all, and only seems to send them into conflict.''

And you thought you [[MotherFBomb mother fuckers]] could hide the truth.''"

->-- '''Gomez''', ''[[ShowWithinAShow Deb of Night]]'', ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. [[spoiler:The last "theory" is [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight pretty much a summary of the plot of entire game]].]]

->-- '''Gomez''', ''[[ShowWithinAShow Deb of Night]]'', ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''. [[spoiler:The last "theory" is [[CassandraTruth pretty much a summary of the entire game]].]]

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->Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is a praxeologist; that is, he believes that people act purposively, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the [[DyingLikeAnimals opponents of "conspiracy" analysis]] who profess to believe that all events — at least in government —are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning.

->There are, of course, [[ShownTheirWork good conspiracy analysts]] and [[DidNotDoTheResearch bad conspiracy analysts]], just as there are good and bad historians or practitioners of any discipline. The bad conspiracy analyst tends to make two kinds of mistakes, which indeed leave him open to the Establishment charge of "paranoia." First, [[YouFailLogicForever he stops with the cui bono]]; if measure A benefits X and Y, he simply concludes that therefore X and Y were responsible. He fails to realize that this is just a hypothesis, and must be verified by finding out whether or not X and Y really did so. (Perhaps the wackiest example of this was the British journalist Douglas Reed who, seeing that the result of Hitler's policies was the destruction of Germany, concluded, without further evidence, that therefore Hitler was a conscious agent of external forces who deliberately set out to ruin Germany.) Secondly, the bad conspiracy analyst seems to have a compulsion to wrap up all the conspiracies, all the bad guy power blocs, into one giant conspiracy. Instead of seeing that there are several power blocs trying to gain control of [[TheGovernment government]], sometimes in conflict and sometimes in alliance, he has to assume — again without evidence — that a small group of men controls them all, and only seems to send them into conflict.