Quotes about Complicity

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit. The okapi complied by living, and the spider by dying. It would have lived if it could. Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different, though. You could say the view is larger.

Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

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

Ik raakte ervan overtuigd dat niet meewerken aan een slechte zaak net zo goed een morele verplichting inhoudt als meewerken aan iets goeds.

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

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

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

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.