Quotes About Complicity

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. Our ongoing examination of who we are in our full humanity, embracing all of our identities, create the possibility of building alliances that may ultimately free us all.

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 a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. Many Germans and many Nazis, probably an overwhelming majority of them, must have been tempted not to murder, not to rob, not to let their neighbors go off to their doom...and not to become accomplices in all these crimes by benefiting from them. But, God knows, they had learned how to resist temptation.

while we know the operation and the specific function of the totalitarian secret police, we do not know how well or to what an extent the 'secret' of this secret society corresponds to the secret desires and the secret complicities of the masses in our time.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

it wasn't Tori's fault that she was friends with a killer. But another part of her, a cold and dead part, said it was necessary. Tori had a role to play in all of this; it was for the greater good.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Quand on parvient à s'aimer vraiment, on attire à soi les bonnes personnes, et le bon niveau d'échange et de complicité se crée. C'est l'association de deux êtres indépendants, qui peuvent d'autant plus s'aimer qu'ils n'ont pas besoin l'un de l'autre pour le quotidien.

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.

Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can't let him destroy my country.

If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are part of a cozy conspiracy of silence. There are innumerable instances of how politicians as a class let each other off the hook after kicking up some dust in parliament.

To be silent is to be complicit.

When you learn that the bank you borrowed money from is actually owned by a drug cartel, should your first reaction be, "Well, we got a good interest rate"? The simple reality is that the Republican Party was in business with Russian intelligence efforts, what used to be known as the KGB, and precious few leading the Republican Party seem to give a damn.

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Tu ayudante, por complicidad en fuga. El coche, por portación reiterada de pelotudos.

Patalear contra la muerte, y ya de paso contra todo lo demás, es el prototipo de sublevación inútil que nunca deja de encontrar angustiada y humorística complicidaden todo optimista bien nacido.

but she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth—did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.

You have just dined," Emerson once wrote, "and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.