Conspiracy Quotes

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

But so much of daily life is organized by the conspiracies of the jokeless: the dehumanizers, those who dread perspective, balance, thought. Lord deliver us from the humorless – I fear Fowler has fallen into their clutches. Moral: don’t make jokes. Ever. The humorless always win.

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.

Oratory, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Why do conspiracy buffs believe that they are worth conspiring against?

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.

As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. (“Hagar the Horrible”)

The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.

Never attribute to Devil-worshipping conspiracies what opportunism, emotional instability, and religious bigotry are sufficient to explain.