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  • Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience. -- Michael Shermer
  • Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered. -- Umberto Eco
  • Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions. -- Francesco Guicciardini
  • Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them. -- Ashwin Sanghi
  • Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed. -- Joseph Addison
  • Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes. -- Umberto Eco
  • There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day! -- Arlen Specter
  • There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. -- Ivo Andric
  • To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. -- Richard King
  • The conspiracies that I've researched and encountered, they seem to happen very ad hoc: they become conspiracies when it's necessary to have a conspiracy. -- Nic Pizzolatto
  • Vaccine conspiracies, like so much modern cult conspiracy culture, perpetuates itself and lives on indefinitely thanks to the community-building and archiving of the Internet. -- Alex Pareene
  • Apocalyptic fiction, while ultimately about God's purposes, usually portrays an immediate, human world of competing conspiracies. Whatever happens is orchestrated, coordinated and planned in advance. -- Virginia Postrel
  • I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate. -- Bob Woodward
  • You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened. -- James Van Der Beek
  • If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings. -- Steve Berry
  • I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness. -- Sophie Hannah
  • Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right. -- Jennifer Granholm
  • At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time. -- Matt Taibbi
  • If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the 'saga' of 'The X-Files.' -- Chris Carter
  • I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies. -- Andrew Gross
  • All professions are conspiracies against the laity. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody. -- David Shuster
  • Perhaps we've invented conspiracies for our own psychic well-being, to heal ourselves. -- Don DeLillo
  • Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize. -- Jon Meacham
  • Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination. -- Patri Friedman
  • unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • A prince need take little account of conspiracies if the people are disposed in his favor. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. -- Umberto Eco
  • In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks. -- Bernard Lown
  • Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way. -- Umberto Eco
  • Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
  • The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness. -- Daniel Gilbert
  • I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud. -- Julian Assange
  • The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them. -- L. Neil Smith
  • The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. -- H. L. Mencken
  • I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like. -- Bill Ayers
  • A prince need trouble little about conspiracies when the people are well disposed, but when they are hostile and hold him in hatred, then he must fear everything and everybody. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness. -- Sophie Hannah
  • To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that. -- George Meyer
  • There is much evidence indicating that the Capitalistic and Communist conspiracies BOTH are directed by a single master conspiracy which may have continuity with the Order of the Illuminati which was founded 200 years ago... -- G. Edward Griffin
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