"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them…" — George Steiner

"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."

— George Steiner

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76 Quotes by George Steiner

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
The age of the book is almost gone.
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. — Saul Bellow
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment… — Steve Almond
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and… — Hermann Hesse
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too… — Cyril Connolly
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in… — John C. Danforth
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and… — Guillaume Faye
I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want. — John Galliano
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the… — William Kent Krueger
Stolen kisses require an accomplice. — Texas Bix Bender
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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