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Quotes About Accomplices

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
~ George Steiner
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
~ George Steiner
Perpetrators did not become fellow victims (as many of them later claimed to be) in the way some victims became accomplices of the perpetrators. The relationship between perpetrator and victim was not symmetrical. The range of choice each faced was totally different.
~ Christopher R. Browning
Not only are there African accomplices inside the imperialist system, but every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work for its overthrow.
~ Walter Rodney
Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
~ lessing doris vi
there would always be an endless supply of potential hench-wenches to choose from.
~ Paul Dini
So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices.
~ Honore de Balzac
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
~ Edward R. Murrow
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
~ Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The final insult to all of this is that when Trump secured the nomination, media companies looked down at their bottom lines and realized that, via the profits they made during his run—Trump is "good for business," CBS president Les Moonves infamously confessed—they had been made accomplices to the whole affair. —
~ Matt Taibbi
What is a 'decision'? A kind of failure, like the cracking of a falling tree--decision is not ex nihilo, is not of the now, always anticipated, because we are everything, everything has accomplices in us. One does not decide to do but allow to happen.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
It is no longer enough for the citizen to submit—the modern state demands accomplices.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila