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Quotes About Conspiracy

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).
~ Rick Perlstein
There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
~ Gillian Flynn
Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.
~ Annie Jacobsen
'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
~ Ian Mckellen
The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'
~ Goran Ivanisevic
I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.
~ Sasha Grey
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.
~ Paul Davies
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
~ J. D. Salinger
Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
~ Umberto Eco
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
~ Jim Garrison
There's a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.
~ Michael McCaul
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
~ Jeremy Bentham
I am like a prisoner who happens on enjoy an imaginary freedom in his dreams and who subsequently begins to suspect that he is asleep and, afraid of being awakened, conspires silently with his agreeable illusions.
~ Rene Descartes
The best my head could do was let in a wild idea about the four of them taking turns with the window pole, presumably with Mrs. Demarest along to keep count of the jabs.
~ Rex Stout
JF: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
~ Rian Hughes
Classical Studies Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death? Answer: Suspicious ones
~ Richard Benson
Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!
~ Richard Curtis
Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.
~ Richard F. Lovelace
People seemed uniquely printed to believe in plots and conspiracies, miracles and demons.
~ Richard Grant
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
~ Richard Hofstadter
He'll spend his life in the service of an immense conspiracy, launched from the Valley of Heart's Delight, to take over the human brain and change it more than anything since writing.
~ Richard Powers
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, supposedly a transcription of a secret Jewish council's plans to subvert legitimate governments and take over the world, were sold internationally in the 1920s and 1930s; Henry Ford took the forgery as literally as Adolf Hitler did.
~ Richard Rhodes
From the horrible weapon which they were about to urge the United States to develop, Szilard, Teller and Wigner—"the Hungarian conspiracy," Merle Tuve was amused to call them—hoped for more than deterrence against German aggression.1194 They also hoped for world government and world peace, conditions they imagined bombs made of uranium might enforce.
~ Richard Rhodes
This mystery has been called the conspiracy ("co-breathing") of God, and is still one of the most profound ways to understand what is happening between God and the soul. True spirituality is always a deep "co-operating" (Romans 8:28) between two. True spirituality is a kind of synergy in which both parties give and both parties receive to create one shared truth and joy.
~ Richard Rohr