Conspiracy Quotes - Page 16

• The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Savages

  'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

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• The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Self, Opposites

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Government, People

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of Mediocrity. We forget that the very volume of this criticism is an indication that our society is still radically pluralistic. Not only are there plenty of exceptionalists who take exception to the stereotyping of the mass culture but that very string of epithets comes from a series of books that have been recent best-sellers, symptoms of a popular, living tradition of dissent from things as they are.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lonely, Book, Men

  "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Introduction, www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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• It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons... I warn the House of Lords of the consequences... it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.

  James Callaghan

  Strong, Views, House

  James Callaghan's speech on economic policy in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 9, 1976.

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• If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.

  Kate O'Beirne

  New York, Dark, Thinking

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 17, 2006.

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• There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together.'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Mean, Together, Breathe

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, November 10, 2004.

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• It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

  Ken MacLeod

  Two, Long, Opaque

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Saddam Hussein

  Kuwait, Iraq, Opponents

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

  Moby

  Simple, Noses, Ugh

  Journal entry at moby.com, January 21, 2003.

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• The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Character, Two, Evil

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• Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes." You can let your mind believe anything.

  Harland Williams

  Believe, Mind, Tests

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Way, Paranoid

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• 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

  Religious, War, Teaching

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• Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

  David Shuster

  Helping, Crime, Easier

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

  David Shuster

  Criminals

  «Hardball with Chris Matthews», www.nbcnews.com. October 17.

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• All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Reality, Important

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• ...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Men, Hair

  "Bolshevism versus Zionism; a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people". Winston Churchill, Illustrated Daily Herald, February 8, 1920.

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• Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth.

  J. G. Ballard

  Book, Blow, Lunch

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• One of the main ways in which I get attacked is by being called a conspiracy theorist by the right and the other main attack is actually from the conspiracy theorists who are really pissed at me for not admitting that 9/11 was an inside job.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Admitting, Way

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Mafia

  "Sophie Hannah: 'I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer. I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.

  Martha Manning

  Simple, Years, Wind

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• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Writing, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I have no regrets - in fact, I am pleased to have expelled the US ambassador, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and to have closed the US military base in Bolivia. Now, without a US ambassador, there is less conspiracy, and more political stability and social stability. Without the International Monetary Fund, we are better off economically.

  Evo Morales

  Regret, Military, Political

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