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Quotes About Conspiracy

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous
~ William Shakespeare
I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall—I will do such things— What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth!
~ William Shakespeare
It will rain tonight. First Murderer: Let it come down.
~ William Shakespeare
These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness.
~ William Shakespeare
And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king.
~ William Shakespeare
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is 't you do?
~ William Shakespeare
And as he plucked his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it, As rushing out of doors, to be resolved If Brutus unkindly knocked or no.
~ William Shakespeare
They must lie there. Go carry them and smear (50) The sleepy grooms with blood.
~ William Shakespeare
How shall I murder him, Iago?
~ William Shakespeare
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards. For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. 165    Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
~ William Shakespeare
Il y a quelque chose de pourri dans le royaume du Danemark.
~ William Shakespeare
Look behind you, my lord. FIRST MURDERER   Take that, and that. (Stabs him.)
~ William Shakespeare
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!        Exit
~ William Shakespeare
holes in the mayor's office.
~ William W. Johnstone
a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth" fitted England very accurately during these years.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Two conspirators with a frog, following the line of a whiffletree.
~ Witold Gombrowicz
When they want a working man for anything excepting work they want him for conspiracy.
~ Clarence Darrow
get him." He stopped for a
~ Clifford Irving
Those who cannot adopt or compete in the dominant status order — closely associated with the acquisition of knowledge and the mastery of complex cultural performances — make opposition to this order a badge of pride and recognition. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is an indicator of this process. People make themselves believe in them, because it induces them into an alternative world of status and rank.
~ Unknown
Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end." Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.
~ Hilary Mantel
In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark.
~ Hilary Mantel
Who are the Brissotins? A good question. You see, if you accuse people of a crime (for example, and especially, conspiracy) and refuse to sever their trials, then it will at once be seen that they are a group, that they have cohesion. Then if we want to say, you're a Brissotin, you're a Girondist—prove that you're not. Prove that you have a right to be treated separately.
~ Hilary Mantel
The great story… is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President.
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
My reaction was that the Yankees had outdone themselves this time. I wondered how on earth they had obtained the photographs. That there was something fishy about the whole thing was beyond doubt, but I could not figure out exactly how the trick had been carried out.
~ Hiroo Onoda