A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.
I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.
Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.
The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work. . . In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins
The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.
Around the country, ideas that originated on the hard right or in the fevered imaginations of conspiracy theorists are finding their way into the mainstream. In a number of cases, these ideas have become commonplace in American minds.
Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.