Quotes About Conspiracy

Yes. If there is a murderer in the woodpile—and I think there is, Hastings. Yes, I think there is….

It Isn't Strychnine, Is It?

So we are back at our last rather sketchy idea—fear. By the death of Stephen Babbington, someone gains security.

Oh, yes, Madame. I have known of—shall we say A?—being removed by B solely in order to benefit C. Political murders often come under the same heading. Someone is considered to be harmful to civilization and is removed on that account. Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

Soldier Island, eh? There's a fly in the ointment.

Julius tapped his revolver.

That's where the choice words came in, huh? He flashed a conspiratorial grin. "Oh, don't you know it. Choice indeed. So choice you could cut them with a knife and eat them with Heinz 57 sauce.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. I voiced the same line: "Cry 'Havoc!'" I said, "And let slip the dogs of war.

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation.

Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.

Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.

Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together.

Lahore Conspiracy Case, as it was called, contains no Muslim name and only one Sikh name, that of Bhagat Singh.

What frequently begins as a conspiracy frequently develops into conditioned response, with only occasional explicit coordination required.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members…. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Would-be Machiavellis, some long dead before the Florentine statesman himself ever lived, anticipate the historian's enquiries by booby-trapping evidence, laying false trails, and liquidating artifacts. (This might have been what Napoleon had in mind when he blew off the nose of the Sphinx. Or was it Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr who did it, in 1378 A.D.? No one really knows.)

Hackie said, Reggie Wright Jr. told him (during a conversation at the Death Row studios in Tarzana) that the case against Snoop was destroyed when important evidence disappeared from the West Los Angeles Police Station. Wright seemed to imply that one of his friends on the LAPD had taken care of this for him, Hackie recalled.