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Definition of Conspiracy
Conspiracy

A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.

An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

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Conspiracy Quotations

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
Oliver Stone

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Henry James

Conspiracy Translations

conspiracy in Dutch is komplot, samenspanning
conspiracy in French is conspiration
conspiracy in Italian is congiura
conspiracy in Latin is consensio, insidiae, coniuratio
conspiracy in Norwegian is sammensvergelse


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