Conspiracy Quotes - Page 9

• 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

  World, Corporations, Politician

  "The I in the Triangle". Speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California, 1990.

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• The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that’s hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.

  Peter Thiel

  Entrepreneur, Secret, World

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.83, Crown Business

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• Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Light, Waiting, Leaving

  "Excerpt: 'Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy'" by Vincent Bugliosi, abcnews.go.com. May 15, 2007.

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• One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Community, Levels, Considering

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• In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Believe, Absence, Cases

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• Those conspiracies that are too incredible to be believed, are by the same right, those which most often succeed.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Evil, Denial, Succeed

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• The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

  Shane Smith

  Citizens, Propaganda, Coups

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Gun, Second Amendment, Voters

  "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.

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• One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ignorance, Government, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.317, Hoover Press

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• Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

  China Mieville

  Foolish

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• Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Insomnia, Race

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016

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• There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, People, Survival

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “Pale Fire”, p.34, Vintage

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• I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.

  Charlie Brooker

  Fun, Clubs, Want

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Exercise, Aunt

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1906, Delphi Classics

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• The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists, graphologists, scientologists, paranoiacs, and every sort of conspiracy theorist.

  Steig Larsson

  Media, People, World

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• I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Book, Objectivity, Mistress

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• It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating them like real ladies. Instinctively colluding in the conspiracy of their fiction, taking care not to decimate it with adult carelessness. Or affection. It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Real, Men

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• Despite serious reservations, I had to forgive Finnick for his role in the conspiracy that landed me here. He, at least has some idea of what I'm going through. And it takes too much energy to stay angry with someone who cries so much.

  Suzanne Collins

  Ideas, Forgiving, Energy

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

  M. John Harrison

  Country, Cities, Forever

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• Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sarcasm, Uggs, Warfare

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• The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Desert, Belief

  "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Varieties of Envy)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1995.

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• I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.

  Derek Landy

  Littering, Murder, Skulduggery Pleasant

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.

  Wilkie Collins

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Wilkie Collins (2015). “Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins”, p.176, e-artnow sro

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• I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunman’s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. It’s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

  David Wong

  Moving, Book, Kids

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan

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