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Love Quote by George Weinberg

"All who love are conspirators"

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Love, in Weinberg's framing, is never just a feeling; it's a quiet act of coordination against whatever order says you should stay separate, ashamed, or legible. "Conspirators" jolts the sentence out of greeting-card territory and into politics. It implies secrecy, risk, mutual recognition. To love is to share information, build codes, create safe rooms - to make an "us" that can't be fully audited by the crowd.

Context matters: Weinberg was a psychologist who helped name and challenge "homophobia" in an era when same-sex desire was pathologized by medicine and policed by law and custom. In that world, affection did require conspiracy. Couples learned to scan a room, to edit pronouns, to perform normalcy for survival. The line doesn't romanticize that pressure so much as repurpose it: what was forced underground becomes, in his wording, a form of solidarity and strategy.

The subtext extends beyond queer history. Any love that refuses commodification or convenience tends to become a pocket society with its own priorities. Friends who show up when it's inconvenient, partners who won't let work colonize every hour, families built outside bloodlines - they all conspire against the default settings of isolation, productivity, and social sorting. Weinberg's genius is the moral inversion: conspiracy, usually a mark of suspicion, becomes evidence of devotion. Love isn't pure; it's partial. It takes sides. That's why it works as a sentence and as a challenge: if you really love, you're already breaking ranks.

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Weinberg, George. (2026, January 17). All who love are conspirators. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-who-love-are-conspirators-53476/

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Weinberg, George. "All who love are conspirators." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-who-love-are-conspirators-53476/.

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"All who love are conspirators." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/all-who-love-are-conspirators-53476/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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George Weinberg (1929 - 2017) was a Psychologist from USA.

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