Complicity Quotes

48 Complicity quotes by 46 unique authors

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 I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal… — Cornel West
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. — Bell Hooks
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt… — Sarah Hall
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 experience with sexuality… — Catharine MacKinnon
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness. — Rebecca MacKinnon
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around… — Samantha Power
Dont let complacency becomes complicity. — Tasneem Hameed
In friendship we have complicity in everything that happens to us. The friend gives us comfort and joy. The scolding and hug. The hand and… — Unknown Author

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