conspiracy quotes

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

-John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir Buchan
  The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.

The great story here†is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.

- Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Interview on NBC television's Today, 27  Jan.

Aconspiracy iseverything thatordinary lifeisnot.It'sthe inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us.We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle.Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach.

- Don DeLillo
  Libra, pt.2,'In Dallas'.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where 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.

-Washington Bailey
  Speech in Washington DC, commemorating the 24th anniversary of emancipation.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, themost self-conscious people inthe world, and themost addictedtothebeliefthattheothernations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

- Henry James
  Hawthorne, ch.6.

There is, then, over the affairs of the armya universal conspiracy of silence, of childlike mysteries, of clannishness, routine and intrigue.

- (Auguste MarieJoseph) Jean Jaure'  s
  L'Arme  e nouvelle.

Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Decency'.

People ofthesametradeseldommeettogether, evenfor merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracyagainst the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

- Adam Smith
  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theWealth of Nations, bk.1, ch.10, pt.2.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

-John Hoyer Updike
  Problems,'How to Love America and Leave It at the Same Time'.

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

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  Love and Mrs Lewisham, ch.23.