There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
In friendship we have complicity in everything that happens to us. The friend gives us comfort and joy. The scolding and hug.… — Anne Copy Share Image
“The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life. — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of… — Victoria Abril Copy Share Image
I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character. — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world.… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,'… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy,… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick Copy Share Image
Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have argued tirelessly, nearly endlessly, in so many books, about the need for the social, the economic reconstruction of society. The… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
“Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?” — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image