Complicity Quotes

48 quotes by 47 authors

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. — Barbara Amiel
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with… — Susan Sontag
Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. — Michelle Malkin
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America.… — George Tenet
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. — Guillaume Canet
While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the… — Elton Gallegly
My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a… — Colin Firth
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's… — Tom Paulin
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This… — Ambrose Bierce
The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life. — Kiki Smith
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give… — Umberto Eco
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. — Barbara Kruger
Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run… — Toni Morrison
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity. — Albert Einstein
He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this… — Victor Hugo
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence,… — Jean Cocteau
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of… — Barbara Kingsolver
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that Iâ€™m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal… — Cornel West

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