Quotes of Conspiracy - somelinesforyou

“ Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ”

- John Buchan

“ In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. ”

- Alexis De Tocqueville

“ Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative? ”

- Bob Woodward

“ Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man — it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts, a conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not: it's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us… ”

- Don Delillo

“ Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason. ”

- Anthony Lewis

“ Our pitching staff is a conspiracy of ifs. ”

- Branch Rickey

“ The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Real life seems to have no plots. ”

- Ivy Compton Burnett

“ 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

“ When one grew old, the whole world was in conspiracy to limit freedom, and for what reason? — just to keep the breath in him a little longer. He did not want it at such cost. ”

- John Galsworthy

“ No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ”

- Ashleigh Brilliant

“ I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. ”

- Michael Ondaatje

“ Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. ”

- Barbara Cartland

“ All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals. ”

- John Adams

“ All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. ”

- John Updike

“ Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ”

- Hamilton Wright Mabi

“ Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ”

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

“ 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 Baldwin

“ 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. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ 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

“ Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy. ”

- Jim Henson

“ 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

“ The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. ”

- Edward F. Halifax

“ All I remember - I don't actually remember or know what night it was I talked to him but I assume it was that night because he did mention that the rumor was out that we were getting ready to file a charge of Oswald being part of an international conspiracy, and I told him that that was not going to be done. ”

- Henry Wade
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