Quotes with conspiracy

  • Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Updike America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • James Baldwin Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John Buchan Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Bernie Sanders In 1999, Hoffmann-LaRoche paid a $500 million criminal fine for leading a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices for certain vitamins.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh In the statement accompanying the text of Lahore Conspiracy Case Ordinance, the Viceroy had stated that the accused in this case were trying to bring both law and justice into contempt. The situation afforded us an opportunity to show to the public whether we were trying to bring law into contempt or whether others were doing so.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Henry James It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Martin Amis Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Adam Smith People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Bob Rae The emergence of the market model in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia is no accident. It is not the product of a corporate conspiracy. It is the consequence of hard lessons learned from cold experience.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Ben Stein Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Camille Paglia What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Frederick Douglass Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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