Complicity Quotes

Complicity Quote of the day

Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Silence in the face of injustice is complicity with the opressor.

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

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

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

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi.

The hardest thing is remembering that you have some complicity in the things that happen to you in your life.

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.

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.

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.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.