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Conspiring Quotes

Lines on plots, politics, and quiet betrayals

This page brings together quotes about conspiring, from soldiers plotting desertion to lawmakers accused of working against their own government.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Quotes by Zebulon Pike

Any effort to destabilise any government, taking refuge in one's ideology for promoting violence, conspiring to destabilise and break the country, I feel there cannot be a bigger crime than this.

Quotes by Rajnath Singh

Some MPs, some very senior civil servants and others, are basically conspiring - and I use the word deliberately - in order to try and prevent us from leaving the E.U. They have never accepted the verdict of the British...

Quotes by Mark Francois

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Quotes by Linda Tripp

Able Quotes

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Quotes by Anurag Kashyap

It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.

Quotes by Andy Stern

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of conspiring appear in these quotes?
The examples range from soldiers plotting desertion and horse theft to political figures accused of working secretly against government decisions.
Is there a historical or wartime example?
Yes, one quote describes a group conspiring to desert in the night and steal horses, which was uncovered only after a spy was engaged.
Does a quote touch on modern politics?
Yes, one speaker accuses senior officials of conspiring to block a decision they had already accepted, framing it as a deliberate betrayal.
Is there a quote about privacy and crime?
One quote asks whether privacy should protect someone who is actively conspiring to commit a crime, questioning where that expectation ends.
Does any quote treat conspiring as a threat to a country?
Yes, one quote calls conspiring to destabilise and break a country one of the gravest crimes imaginable. For related ideas, see Against Quotes.

You will also find thoughts on documenting criminal wrongdoing and on efforts to destabilise a country, each treating conspiring as a serious threat.