Conspiracy Quotes

334 quotes by 275 authors

People love conspiracy theories. — Neil Armstrong
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… — John Avlon
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. — James A. Baldwin
Fear is the foundation of most governments. — John Adams
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really,… — John le Carre
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching… — Harlan Coben
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. — Martin Amis
From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. — J. Edgar Hoover
The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries. — Rupert Sheldrake
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis… — Winston Churchill
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… — John Harvey Kellogg
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. — George Bernard Shaw
Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks. — Bernard Lown
Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones — Camille Paglia
When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one… — AndrÃ© Brink

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