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Quotes about Complicity

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.
- Nancy Pearcey
Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals—and is intended to conceal—the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the "peculiar institution.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
- Cormac McCarthy
White people who wished to think well of themselves did not use the language of racial insult in front of black people. But the problem for us white people, as we finally had to understand, was that we could not be selectively complicit. To be complicit at all, even thoughtlessly by custom, was to be complicit in the whole extent and reach of the injustice. It is hard for customary indifference to utstick itself from the abominations to which it tacitly consents.
- Wendell Berry
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...
- William Faulkner
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
- Wendell Berry
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.