#piracy

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. ↗

— George Adam Smith

#conspiracy #contrivance #conversation #diversion #ends

Why would the US try to win a war? War is an assembly line of death that is highly profitable for politicians and weapons manufacturers. An ongoing war is a conveyer belt of cash. Once your war is won, the assembly line has stopped and the big money is gone. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#conspiracy #politicians #war #death

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#act #different #different kind #greater #internet

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#conspiracy #dismiss #government #killed #lower

Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#domestic #market #piracy

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#country #fond #i #life #lot

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life. ↗

— David Duchovny

#conspiracy #existence #extraterrestrial #hide #i

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things. ↗

— Adrian McKinty

#gods #humans #patterns #religion #religion

There's a few conspiracy theories that I believe in, but not too many. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#conspiracy #few #i #i believe #i believe in

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#bloody #conspiracy #nature