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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
Civilisation is a conspiracy.
Buchan, John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir— 1916 The Power-House, ch.3,'Tells of a Midsummer Night'.
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
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 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
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. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
Adam Smith— Chapter X, Part II, p. 152
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.
michael a. stackpole— Stackpole. "The Pulling Report". Retrieved on 2007-05-27.
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))
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)
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)
Following Korzybski , I put things in probabilities, not absolutes ... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics , to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics , ideology , jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory .
robert anton wilson— Interview in High Times (2003)
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 ethnic Macedonians and the Macedonian language are a result of a Comintern conspiracy.
— Venko Markovski, Yugoslavian writer, poet and Communist politician (who in 1945 participated in the Commission for the Creation of the Macedonian Alphabet) in an interview for Bulgarian National Television on 31/12/1987. Mitewa, Yulia (2001), "? — ?", Veliko Tarnovo: Litera
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— Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 198
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
Denial of the reality of multiple personality by these doctors in the mind control network, who are also on the FMSF [False Memory Syndrome Foundation] Scientific and Professional Advisory Board, could be disinformation. The disinformation could be amplified by attacks on specialists in multiple personality as CIA conspiracy lunatics.
— Colin A. Ross, in Government-Funded Mind Control/Medical Experimentation (Quotes to Ponder)
Josephus … in seeking after the cause of the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple … ought to have said that the conspiracy against Jesus was the cause of these calamities befalling the people, since they put to death Christ.
— Origen (c. 185–c. 254), Origin Against Celus, Book I, Chapter XLVII.
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)
