Conspiracy Quotes

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. (John Updike)
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. View quote
Henry James
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. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
James Baldwin
Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst. View quote
Gore Vidal
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, has come into its own. View quote
John le Carré
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. View quote
Martin Amis
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being. View quote
Michael Tippett
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people. (Thomas Ligotti)
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun. View quote
David Graeber
Conspiracy theory was tremendously popular, always and forever. People wanted such catastrophes to mean something more than mere individual madness, and so the hunt was on. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U. S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger. View quote
Saddam Hussein
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies. View quote
Michael A. Stackpole
One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses? View quote
Moby
Apparently, "conspiracy stuff" is now shorthand for unspeakable truth. View quote
Gore Vidal
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam – mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males. (Francine Prose)
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work. View quote
Camille Paglia
Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself. View quote
Fritz Leiber
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson