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Civilization
is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of
comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
-- John Buchan
1875-1940, Scottish Writer,
Statesman
If we are on
the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working
of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A
conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the
inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to
us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make
some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a
logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are
the same taut story of men who find coherence in some
criminal act.
-- Don Delillo
1926-, American Author
The search for
conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and
paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes
that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It
obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in
this life there is often tragedy without reason.
-- Anthony Lewis
In countries
where associations are free, secret societies are unknown.
In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.
-- Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social
Philosopher
Who is that
man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a
conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow
to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
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