Complicity Quotes
48 Complicity quotes by 46 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.
— Kiki Smith
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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
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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
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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
— Barbara Kruger
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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
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You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
— Bell Hooks
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…“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
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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
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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
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There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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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
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Dont let complacency becomes complicity.
— Tasneem Hameed
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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
Who Wrote These Complicity Quotes
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