Quotes About Complicity

There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

The murder of Pakistan's first prime minister heralded the imminent derailment of the political process and the onset of a brutal political culture of assassinations, sustained by the state's direct or indirect complicity.

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.

When we have to think strategically, we also have to accept our complicity: we forgo any illusions of purity; we give up the safety of exteriority. If we are not exterior to the problem under investigation, we too are the problem under investigation. Diversity work is messy, even dirty, work.

The Nazi regime had trapped the whole population of the country as accomplices, willing or not, in its own crimes, and its own insanity.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

El opresor no sería tan fuerte si no tuviese cómplices entre los propios oprimidos

Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially protect liege-woman and will be in charge of justifying her existence: along with the economic risk, she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

In many cases, the man can commit acts with woman's complicity that degrade her without tarnishing his lofty image.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

Somos complicidad entre dos soledades

Solo la música puede crear una complicidad indestructible entre dos seres. Una pasión es perecedera, se degrada como todo aquello que participa de la vida; mientras que la música pertenece a un orden superior a la vida y, por supuesto, a la muerte

Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.

I re-read the books I love and I love the books I re-read, and each time it is the same enjoyment, whether I re-read twenty pages, three chapters, or the whole book: an enjoyment of complicity, of collusion, or more especially, and in addition, of having in the end found kin again.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

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 for the first time not alone in your suffering.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

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 for the first time not alone in your suffering.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?

Every sin is the result of a collaboration