Conspiracy Quotes - Page 8

• You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Running, Thinking, Views

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• To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

  Matt Taibbi

  Evil, Betrayed, Hollywood

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• (It) could involve the AMA and others in an interstate conspiracy of alarming proportions.

  Benedict Fitzgerald

  Dark, Age, Medical

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• Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

  Henry Paulson

  People, Authority, Ifs

  "A Skeptical Outsider Becomes Bush's 'Wartime General'". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.

  William J. Clinton

  Law, Today, Financial

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999".

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• Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beautiful, Plot, Add

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• Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

  Murray Rothbard

  Mean, Finals, Payment

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• There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

  Ray McKinnon

  Writing, Humility, Found You

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• ...The asbestos industry...has for decades successfully suppressed and manipulated information on the carcinogenicity and other hazards of asbestos. Involved in this conspiracy network were senior industry executives, their medical staff, attorneys, insurance companies, trade associations, scientific consultants, and commercial labs.

  Samuel Epstein

  Senior, Dark, Age

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• 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

  Government, Law, United States

  "Rice defends US policy". news.bbc.co.uk. December 5, 2005.

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• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

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• One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Writing, Wings

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2003). “Living History”, Simon & Schuster

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• The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.

  H. R. Giger

  Father, Giving, Design

  Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.

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• The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Life Changing, Evil

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• There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Gun, Land

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• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Cripples

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.145, Vintage

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• A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Typical, Tariffs, Libertarian

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE ENGINEERS AND THE PRICE SYSTEM: From the Author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution & The Higher Learning in America”, p.12, e-artnow

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• The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain the history of the Trojan War is gone. The gods are abandoned. But their place is filled by powerful men or groups - sinister pressure groups whose wickedness is responsible for all the evils we suffer from - such as the Learned Elders of Zion, or the monopolists, or the capitalists, or the imperialists.

  Karl Popper

  Religious, Powerful, War

  "The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx".

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• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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• Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Trying, May

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• The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Fda, Evil

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• Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Society, Generations, Demand

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• As the saying goes not every conspiracy is a theory.

  Joseph Finder

  Theory

  Joseph Finder (2011). “Buried Secrets”, p.178, Macmillan

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• The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Party, Mean, Practice

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