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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. -- Jeremy Bentham
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. -- Douglas MacArthur
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. -- Frederick Douglass
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. -- Matt Taibbi
Conspiracy is always inspired by conspirators -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition. -- Robert Anton Wilson
A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words. -- John Lennon
Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered. -- Roger Cohen
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. -- John Updike
Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody. -- Florence Ellinwood Allen
Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting! -- Lewis Carroll
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- Unknown
Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. -- Henry Louis Gates
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
I have a tendency to often share the point of view of the conspiracy theory. -- Marion Cotillard
I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room. -- Jack Ruby
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. -- John Buchan
The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. -- J. Edgar Hoover
One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation. -- Louis Stokes
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. -- Jonathan Alter
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. -- William Blum
My favourite songs from literally all my favourite albums are usually always track 10. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Illuminati? Time will tell. -- Tyler Hojberg
Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs. -- George W. Bush
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel. -- Marquis de Sade
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. -- Randolph Bourne
The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. -- Jim Garrison
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world. -- Roger Cohen
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. -- Dorothy Day
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. -- Woodrow Wilson
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. -- Adam Smith
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. -- Henry Ford
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. -- George W. Bush
Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say. -- Oliver Stone
The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. -- Jeremy Rifkin
I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it. -- Peter Gould
The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World. -- Jimmy Savile
The bankers' Satanic Conspiracy is the source of anti Semitism. The sooner Jews rise up to oppose it; the sooner anti-Semitism will end.. Obviously, many Christians are involved. When I criticize Rockefeller, no one says anything about 'anti-Christianism.' -- Henry Makow
For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination. -- Annie Jacobsen
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior. -- Robert Anton Wilson
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. -- Henry James
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. -- Nic Pizzolatto
I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster. -- Nic Pizzolatto
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug. -- Jim Garrison
And if we're talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum. -- Nic Pizzolatto
Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease. -- Christabel Pankhurst
I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease. -- J. K. Rowling
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. -- Woodrow Wilson
People love conspiracy theories. -- Neil Armstrong
I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. -- David Duchovny
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. -- Joseph Sobran
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone. -- Joe Rogan
Whenever you're faced with an explanation of what's going on in Washington, the choice between incompetence and conspiracy, always choose incompetence. -- Charles Krauthammer
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. -- Shane Smith
Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy. -- Monica Johnson
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. -- Cynthia McKinney
I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment. -- Doug Stanhope
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. -- J. G. Ballard
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. -- John Avlon
When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. -- Steve Jobs
Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis. -- Oswald Mosley
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. -- Tim Wise
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy. -- Montel Williams
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia. -- John T. Flynn
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs. -- Paul Davies
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle. -- John Ridley
I just think too many nice things have happened in string theory for it to be all wrong. Humans do not understand it very well, but I just don't believe there is a big cosmic conspiracy that created this incredible thing that has nothing to do with the real world. -- Edward Witten
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. -- Francis Collins
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 the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. -- Harlan Coben
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest. -- Jason Ritter
Everyone loves a conspiracy. -- Dan Brown
Civilisation is a conspiracy. -- John Buchan
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence -- George Bernard Shaw
Not every conspiracy is a theory, -- James Badge Dale
Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories. -- George W. Bush
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy). -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Judaism is a conspiracy against all races. -- Tom Metzger
What is a political party but a conspiracy? -- Gore Vidal
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesn't? -- Homaro Cantu
Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Donald Trump always is looking for some conspiracy. -- Hillary Clinton
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesnt? -- Homaro Cantu
I'm not a conspiracy theorist"?I'm a conspiracy analyst, -- Gore Vidal
Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is! -- Ed Harris
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth. -- Gore Vidal
A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy. -- Gabrielle Zevin
People are always receptive to the idea of a conspiracy. -- James Cook
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. -- Gore Vidal
As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory. -- Joseph Finder
An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy. -- Allen Dulles
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. -- Douglas MacArthur
Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance. -- Penn Jillette
A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade. -- Thorstein Veblen
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god. -- Shawn Doyle
Blows the lid off a decades-long conspiracy to secretly educate cartoon viewers -- David X. Cohen
Theres a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many. -- Jason Ritter
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. -- Jeff Greenfield
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government. -- John McCain
Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless. -- Malala Yousafzai
There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many. -- Jason Ritter
There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'. -- Janeane Garofalo
There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do. -- David Cottrell
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are people who think everything is a conspiracy and I think they're crazy. -- Bill Maher
(It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions... -- Benedict Fitzgerald
Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones -- Camille Paglia
To walk through walls go two steps slower in the vast conspiracy of ignorace. -- Gary Gach
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive. -- Adyashanti
The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance. -- James Bovard
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
I don't believe in the moon landing conspiracy theory. I don't believe in Big Foot. -- Jerome Corsi
The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything. -- Bryant McGill
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility. -- Frank Herbert
As sisters in Zion, we can be obstacles to the adversary's conspiracy against families and virtue. -- Sheri L. Dew
The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place" -- Karl Popper

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