John Dunne Quotes

The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.

I invented the low blow. I can outdemagogue the best of demagogues.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation

'The Ides of March' was a fairly cynical film.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

Tactics are manipulative.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

In conspiracies, men who know what they wanted commonly ended by controlling the men who did not.

I was attracted and repelled by what I saw of politics in my father's house. Attracted by the adventure, the opportunity. Repelled by the grasping, the artificiality, the obvious manipulation and role-playing, the repetition of emotion without feeling, particularly that: the repetition of emotion.

The basic tactics of the Communist Party are deceit and trickery.

Set of Vipers

Creative betrayal is the essence of successful statesmanship.

We have to deal with a deceitful and crafty enemy, who, gratifying the ears of people and of princes, has ensnared them by smooth speeches and by adulation. Ingratiating themselves with rulers under a pretense of friendship, the Freemasons have endeavored to make them their allies and powerful helpers for the destruction of the Christian name

there are some people of a timid or very opportunists mind who press on us the necessity of leading people on by little and little, concealing the object they have in view, until people are so far committed to the steps to be taken towards it that they cannot draw back again

The wronger a conspiracy is, the better it is.

[Allen Dulles] was not above misleading Congress or his colleagues or even his commander in chief.

Politics, so far as mobilizing support is concerned, represents the art of calculated cheating, or more precisely how to cheat without being really caught

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.