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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.
— 1900 Love and Mrs Lewisham, ch.23.
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
bernard bailyn— Chapter IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138
Secresy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.
jeremy bentham— On Publicity from The Works of Jeremy Bentham volume 2, part 2 (1839)
Around the country, ideas that originated on the hard right or in the fevered imaginations of conspiracy theorists are finding their way into the mainstream. In a number of cases, these ideas have become commonplace in American minds.
chip berlet— "Into the Mainstream" in Intelligence Report (Summer 2003) at the Southern Poverty Law Center
In Islam, democracy is included and people are free in Islam, both in expressing their opinions and their actions, until there is no conspiracy and they don't bring up ideas which would deviate Iranian generation.
ruhollah khomeini— Imam's Sahife, vol. 5, p. 468. (15 January 1979)
One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?
moby— "oil industry", journal entry (2003-01-21) at moby.com
The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.
bob rae— Chapter Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Prosperity, p. 21
I care not what religion, club, area or class you come from, nor what bit of colored cloth you wave as a flag. WE are ALL under deadly attack by colored hordes which outnumber us more than seven to one, led by a filthy Jewish, Communist conspiracy!
George Lincoln Rockwell— White Self-Hate: Master-Stroke Of The Enemy
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. … The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.
john carroll— p. 149 (Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974))
What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody’s conscious control.
arthur c. clarke— Chapter 19 (The Light of Other Days (2000))
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— "On Women" (1772), as translated in Selected Writings (1966) edited by Lester G. Crocker
He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to the Aegean Sea, from the Pyrenees to the Urals.
adolf eichmann— Gideon Hausner as quoted in The New York Times (27 June 1961)
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.
muammar gaddafi— Interview with Al Jazeera (27 March 2007)
The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
condoleezza rice— In response to the allegation that the U.S. has operated secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, December 5, 2005
That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, monotonous, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitable produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of “bread and circuses” can compensate for the damage done these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society.
e. f. schumacher— p. 35 (Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973))
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.
leo tolstoy— As quoted in Tolstoy (1988) by A. N. Wilson, p. 146
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
john updike— “How to Love America and Leave it at the Same Time,” Problems and Other Stories (1979)
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, in The Wealth of Nations (1776)
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
— Robert Anton Wilson, in Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups (1998), Introduction, p. 16
O conspiracy, Sham'st thou to show thy dang'rous brow by night, When evils are most free?
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act II, scene 1, line 76
Open-eye conspiracy His time doth take.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act II, scene 1. Song, line 301.
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— Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C. (April 1886)
The strongest passions, and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition , avarice , vanity , the honorable or venial love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
— Alexander Hamilton, Chapter: Helvidius Number IV in: The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794: Toward the Completion of the American Founding, edited with and Introduction by Morton J. Frisch (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2007).
Here, Seneca uses the same observation that Sallust made regarding friendship (in his historical account of the Catilinarian conspiracy, Bellum Catilinae [XX.4]) to define wisdom.
— Letter XXII: On the futility of half-way measures, line 17.
There is a conspiracy here, and i will shake it out!
— Who: Baltus Van Tassel
— Source: Sleepy Hollow.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
robert anton wilson— The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Luigi Duccio
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— The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)
