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Quotes About Conspiracy

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.
~ Umberto Eco
But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
~ Umberto Eco
The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge
~ Umberto Eco
Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps
~ Umberto Eco
Kada policijos informatorius tampa išties patikimas? Kai atskleidžia s?moksl?. Tad reikia surengti s?moksl?, apie kur? gal?t? pranešti.
~ Umberto Eco
esiste una società segreta con ramificazioni in tutto il mondo, che complotta per diffondere la voce che esiste un complotto universale.
~ Umberto Eco
A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there's perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.
~ Umberto Eco
Vale para el Pentágono y para la CIA, pero no me dirás que todas las revistas de coches dependen de los servicios secretos de la demoplutojudeocracia al acecho.
~ Umberto Eco
Cizvitler, dusmani sasirtmak icin en iyi yontemin gizli mezhepler yaratmak, tehlikeli heveslilerin bu mezheplere kosmalarini beklemek, sonra da tumunu tutuklamak oldugunu biliyorlardi. Baska bir deyisle, bir tuzaktan korkuyorsan, kendin kur tuzagi. Boylece tuzaga dusenler, senin denetimin altina girer.
~ Umberto Eco
The social theory of conspiracy, Popper says, is a consequence of the end of God as a reference point and of the consequent question, Who is there in his place? This place is now occupied by various men and powerful, sinister groups that can be blamed for having organized the Great Depression and all the evils we suffer.10
~ Umberto Eco
That's exactly why the Cagoule was never purged in France; there were more than five hundred army officers involved in the plot, and the Cabinet voted against Léon Blum and Marx Dormoy, who wanted to root them out. The result was, they stayed in the army and went on making appeasement propaganda, even in the midst of war.
~ Upton Sinclair
The propaganda of this bunch is anti-Jew, anti-Russian, and to some extent anti-British. It is closely tied up with the Catholic hierarchy—the Papal Knights and the Papal Delegates and our millionaires who back them." "There you have it! Franco Spain, and the intrigues of the Nazis in South America—these are all parts of the same world conspiracy!
~ Upton Sinclair
It was the Franco procedure all over again, and among the conspirators were Marshal Pétain, the hero of Verdun, and General Weygand, who had been Foch's chief of staff; also Chiappe, the Corsican head of the Paris police, and Doriot, former Communist leader said to have sold out his party and bought himself an estate in Belgium with money got from the Nazis. CSAR was the name of this group
~ Upton Sinclair
It was the Franco procedure all over again, and among the conspirators were Marshal Pétain, the hero of Verdun, and General Weygand, who had been Foch's chief of staff; also Chiappe, the Corsican head of the Paris police, and Doriot, former Communist leader said to have sold out his party and bought himself an estate in Belgium with money got from the Nazis. CSAR was the name of this group—Comité pour Secret Action Révolutiormaire—
~ Upton Sinclair
Quadratt had, so he claimed, a mailing list of a hundred and fifty thousand names, and seldom a day passed that he didn't write a speech for some Senator or Congressman to deliver. Then it would be printed as part of the Congressional Record, reprinted at a nominal cost by the Government Printing Office, and mailed out to these names, and to other lists supplied by Nazi or near-Nazi organizations scattered all over the country.
~ Upton Sinclair
The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.
~ Victor Hugo
And while I still resist defaulting to conspiracist explanations, pieces of this story do look and swim and walk and quack an awful lot like ducks—that is, resemble a well-executed conspiracy, not especially secret, by the leaders of the capitalist class, at the expense of everyone else.
~ Kurt Andersen
Women are much more likely than men to say they're "spiritual," whereas two-thirds of people who call themselves agnostic or atheist are men. So male seculars go elsewhere to satisfy their need to believe in the untrue—for instance, men constitute large majorities of devoted believers in nonexistent conspiracies.
~ Kurt Andersen
Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.
~ Kurt Cobain
he's going there at the orders of Muhammad Nahas to meet someone.
~ Kyle Mills
Sayid Halabi was rotting in the Somali desert thanks to Scott Coleman
~ Kyle Mills
It's not like that. You don't understand." Jaid and Shepherd stepped toward the man in tandem. Taking out her cuffs, she said, "What I understand is that you're under arrest for conspiracy to commit murder.
~ Kylie Brant
to take State 123 and wind up in the Potomac River. He ignored directions to take US 495—which is really US 95 and bypasses Washington entirely. He even defeated the conspiracy to confuse the public on US 29 to believe they were on US 50. He steadfastly rolled along on US 29, even untangled the
~ L. Ron Hubbard
By connecting Oswald to several parts of the JFK–Almeida coup plan, those working for Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli could ensure that when Oswald surfaced as the main suspect, the CIA and other agencies would have to cover up much information to protect the coup plan—which is exactly what happened
~ Lamar Waldron