Gore Vidal Quotes

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It's so interesting!

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy [against its own government]. Its members can travel about at home and abroad under secret orders, and no questions are asked. Every scrap of paper in the files, its membership, its expenditure of funds, its contacts, even enemy contacts, are state secrets.

From a conspiratorial point of view things could not have been better. No identification documents were needed in London, and one could register under any name.

For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

In the name of national security, the Commission’s hearings were held in secret, thereby continuing the policy which has marked the entire course of the case. This prompts my second question: If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security? Indeed, precisely the same question must be put here as was posed in France during the Dreyfus case: If the Government is so certain of its case, why has it conducted all its inquiries in the strictest secrecy?

Everything is a conspiracy. People kind of demonize the word. But a conspiracy is when two people get together and do something. So, if more than one person does something, it's a conspiracy. The revolution was a conspiracy, Iran Contra, Watergate.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

I was taught the truth will set you free... unless, of course, you want the truth about who killed JFK.

We're called conspiracy theorists because we see this cabal right in front of us. We're able to aggregate these data points and show what was really going on.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.