John Malkovich Quotes

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

No one who lives in error is free.

People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

A democracy becomes ungovernable if a substantial portion of the population lives in an alternative reality…. How do you have a rational conversation about President Obama’s policies of he believes that Obama is a spy for Iran.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The public never knows what he wants, but he always wants what he knows.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.

We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.

I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.

My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.