Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders. — Tim Kaine
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. — Abraham Lincoln
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. — Bell Hooks
Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Short Accomplice Quotes
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. — Marquis de la Grange
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad
Art is the accomplice of love. — Remy De Gourmont
I was an accomplice in my own frustration. — Peter Shaffer
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. — George Steiner
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice. — Naomi Judd
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing. — Christiane Amanpour
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. — Steve Almond
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice. — Helen Prejean
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. — Joyce Carol Oates
If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner. — Jean-Paul Sartre
All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice. — Mary Travers
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. — Tom Robbins
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it. — Guillaume Faye
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. — Voltaire
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints,
was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush...
Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole. — Toni Cade Bambara
ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This view of the attorney's position in the matter has not hitherto commanded the assent of attorneys, no one having offered them a fee for assenting. — Ambrose Bierce
If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. — Mao Zedong
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't 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
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification. — Susan Sontag
We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity. — Henri Frederic Amiel
One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice. — Hakim Bey
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. — Gail Sheehy
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love. — Gay Talese
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery? — Beth Moore
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. — Edwin M. Stanton
People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices. — Jose Saramago
However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. — Joseph Conrad
I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race. — Albert Camus
If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too. — Clive Stafford Smith
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
is that of accomplices in crime — Marlene Dietrich
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce
The theory for admitting accomplice testimony that is uncorroborated is that conspiracy is by its nature secretive and that only the parties to it can know it occurred. But in practice this means the accomplice's guilt is modified to the degree that he can convict the defendant. — E. L. Doctorow
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