C Quotes
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“Conspiracy theories and viral falsehoods are probably as old as language.”
Source: Rationality
“Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.”
“Conspiracy theories are ways for someone to understand what is going on in the world and try to restore some sense of control in themselves.”
“Conspiracy theories explaining the Bolshevik victory gained widespread credence: the most popular of these was that of international Jewish conspiracy, since Trotsky, Zinoviev, and a number of other Bolshevik leaders were Jewish; but another theory, revived in Solzhenitsyn's Lenin in Zurich, pictured the Bolsheviks as pawns of the Germans in a successful plot to take Russia out of the war. (...) the attitudes that
enabled such theories to flourish may also have influenced Western scholarly approaches to the problem.”
Source: The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
“Conspiracy theories like Qanon make dumb people feel smart, because they think they're privy to secret information.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Conspiracy theories tend to depend on conspirators who are unduly evil with genocide or world domination as a motive,”
“conspiracy theorist: (n.) marginalized thinker with a better than average chance of being right on the money.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.”
“Conspiracy theorists, she knew, were paranoid by definition, and usually with good reason – they were indeed being watched, largely because they were standing on an upturned bucket, haranguing the sheeple about their wingnut delusions.”
Source: Real Tigers
“Conspiracy theory has gone too far when the explanation for everything being connected is less believable than the idea that sometimes, people just make mistakes, or... you know, gravity happens.”
“Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second.”
Source: London Rules
“Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.”
“Conspiracy thinking generally follows a similar pattern: a sense of “knowing what others don’t” that offers temporary superiority or certainty, but rarely leads to wisdom, peace, or meaningful change.”
Source: Consciousness Rising
“Conspiracy thinking inflates the sizableness of the perceived enemy into infinity so that in the end one can only feel powerless compared to such a giant. In this way, conspiracy thinking also embodies an aspect of self destruction.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.”
“Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords.”
“Conspirators, in whatever context, are unquestionably criminals and traitors, whether in uniform or any other dress.”
“Constable himself knew the value of such studies, for he rarely parted with them. He used to say of his studies and pictures that he had no objection to part with the corn, but not with the field that grew it.”
“Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.”
Source: The Diamond Age
“Constable N stepped away from the car, into the darkness where Darren could not see where his gun was pointing, and fired two rounds into the air. The gunshots cracked the roof of the night sky and echoed back at us. My first thought was that they could be heard all over Toekomsrus; I wondered how many imaginations had in that instant conjured a different story to explain the gunshots; a record of all those stories, I found myself thinking, would probably document every fear this place has of itself and its young men.”
Source: Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South African
“Constable Watson waived my apology off. He had a better alternative for me. “You seem like a decent young feller. I’m gonna arrange for you to spend the night at my daughter’s house.”
Source: A Hitchhiker’s Big Adventure: On the road from Indiana to Key West and New Orleans for Mardi Gras 1972
“Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.”
“Constance leaned over the parchment and ostensibly studied in detail all the complex symbols worked into the design: the compass with four needles, each needle a scepter; the red poppies worked into the gold-embellished borders; the mythical figures, each veiled face a woman’s.”
Source: The Seamstress of New Orleans
“Constance was interested only in the actual history of the real woman Semiramis. The wild mythologies and legends that had grown up around her over the centuries bit too deeply into Constance’s own uncertainty and guilty fear. She could not bear the legendary, magical figure featured in multiple, sometimes conflicting embellishments, certainly not the damned creature of Dante—-consigned to Hell in the Circle of Lust—-or the tragic figure of Voltaire or Rossini’s opera. But the real woman Semiramis, who had taken the throne at her husband’s death and remained there until her son came of age, who had ruled, expanded, and stabilized the Assyrian Empire, here was a woman who could lend her hope. Aside from history, the only myth of Semiramis that touched her was that of an abandoned girl raised by doves.”
Source: The Seamstress of New Orleans
“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Constancy in a man is rare.”
“Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.”
“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”
Source: Bleak House
“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.”
“Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.”
“Constancy is the chimera of love.”
“Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.”
“Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.”
Source: Timeless Thoughts for Today
“Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.”
“Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.”
Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel
“Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.”
“Constant acts of goodness are worth far more than rare acts of greatness.”
“Constant assessments, feedback, and continuous learning all play a crucial role in rapid learning, an approach for acquiring knowledge and developing skills quickly and efficiently.”
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
“Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”
“Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.”
“Constant change is the law of life.”
“Constant comment, I couldn't put it down.”
“Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.”
“Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.”
“Constant complaints were being made of incompetent attendants, and some dozen women did double duty, and then were blamed for breaking down. If any hospital director fancies this a good and economical arrangement, allow one used up nurse to tell him it isn't, and beg him to spare the sisterhood, who sometimes, in their sympathy, forget that they are mortal, and run the risk of being made immortal, sooner than is agreeable to their partial friends.”
Source: Hospital Sketches
“Constant conflict is actually often good politics. Because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at election day. And if they're more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win, because your crowd will show up.”
“Constant consciousness of old age's frailties really makes me appreciate youth. It's so interesting that we evolved to respond with automatic care to the young... while old age repels, makes us afraid of our own mortality.”
Source: Displacement: A Travelogue
“Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists.”
“Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.”