Quotes About Unwitting

American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the Iranians.

I had no idea that I was…destroying people.

She remarks, in particular, how white people simply fail to understand how they might be complicit, unwittingly, in shoring up structures of white dominance.

Rooting about in themselves for the source of their discomfort, they undergo agonies of unnecessary guilt. They seem blankly unaware that what they are feeling inside themselves is the subjective reflection of a much larger objective crisis: they are acting out an unwitting drama within a drama.

If indeed, he or she has unwittingly engaged in racist behaviors and has unknowingly allowed systems of injustice to flourish, the pain and suffering inflicted upon people of color is partly due to his or her own complicity in a racist system. This proves to be a frightening and uncomfortable realization for many White Americans. Blinders of naïveté, innocence, and obliviousness become removed when awareness of racism and its dynamics increases.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.

the effort is to understand that occlusion is an ongoing, malleable process, sometimes in a form already congealed and seemingly over as it acts on the present, making of us unwittingly compliant observers, nearly always belated in identifying just how it works.

I sat in silence, absorbing this. They'd wagered that Mr. Ross wouldn't throw me out if I was on my own, and no thanks to them, they were right. I wasn't just their plaything, their pretty, fake wife. I was their unwitting pawn, theirs to strategically play.

You could say I strengthened and shaped Goblin, unwittingly creating the monster that he is now.

People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God.

If there is such a thing as fate, it's not that life is already written and we're simply unwitting figures in lines of spiritual code–it's that we are at the mercy of things imposed on us in childhood. — Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence (Godine, 2022)

Prophets are always disagreeable and usually have bad manners, but it is said that they occasionally hit the nail on the head . . . like every true prophet, the artist is the unwitting mouthpiece of the psychic secrets of his time and is often as unconscious as a sleep-walker.

our host showed us back through the beaded curtain. "I trust you can find your way out?" he said, holding the fringe so it didn't drop back and tickle us, or tangle up in our hair, or whatever it is that sinister beaded curtains do to inconvenience the unwitting masses.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin.

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

Typical of Sylvia to bring a poinsettia. As though she knew. The congenitally heavy-handed are capable even of unwitting brutalities.

Both areas are relatively closed populations with low standards of living and both contain Native American reservations. In this context, if one were going to conduct a program of testing new technological toys on an unwitting population