What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic. — Albert Camus
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
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. — George W. Bush
All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. — Sayings
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley
Love isn't complicated, people are. — Rihanna
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
Complicity Image Quotes
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres
Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated
Inspiring Complicity Quotes
Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma. — Thubten Yeshe
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated. — Anne McKevitt
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation. — Andrew Young
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive. — Elon Musk
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all. — Joan Didion
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. — Charles Mingus
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that. — Gardner Dickinson
Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Complicity Love Quotes
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. — Stephen Greenblatt
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. — Bill Russell
It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all. — Tori Spelling
I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you. — Graeme Simsion
I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'. — Billy Connolly
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you. — Rick Riordan
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. — David Duchovny
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? — Margaret Atwood
Being Complicit Quotes
I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism. — Shepard Fairey
If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit. — Ivanka Trump
Likewise to Saudi Arabia, where we just were selling another billion dollars worth of weapons, and we're not only selling the weapons but we are complicit in the war effort in Yemen where there are also incredible atrocities and war crimes being committed. — Jill Stein
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy, Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. — Will Oldham
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed. — Michael Eric Dyson
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
Life is easy, we just insist on making it complicated
There is an ongoing effort to replace Donald Trump, to get him out of office. The media may not be leading it, but they are complicit in it. The media doesn't like Donald Trump and is doing what they can to undermine his presidency. They're doing what they can to discredit him. — Rush Limbaugh
Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress. — Doug Stanhope
So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued. — Charles Hugh Smith
I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does. — Anne Rice
Complicated Life Quotes
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. — Shimon Peres
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John Von Neumann
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's simple until you make it complicated
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates. — Ben Feldman
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. — J. August Strindberg
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. — Rachel McAdams
Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life. — Keith Haring
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. — Alan Watts
Not Complicated Quotes
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish. — Harry Vardon
That’s what science is, that whole complicated story about how the particles are moving faster. It’s not about trends and predictions; it’s about explanations. — Naval Ravikant
Getting overly caught up in such minute details leads to burnout. And burnout always leads back to old habits. The name of the game is sustainability. And simply put, if it's too complicated, it's not sustainable. And if it's not sustainable, what's the point? — Rich Roll
One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones. — Bruce Lee
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves. — Pope Benedict XVI
Sometimes the more you think, the less you do. Sometimes the less you think, the more you do. Simplify. It's not that complicated. — Patrick Bet-David
Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'. — Linus Torvalds
If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not. — Tom Kerridge
Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing. — Mickey Mantle
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. — Pau (Pablo) Casals
Life Is Complicated Quotes
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson
Life is as simple or complicated as we make it. — Donna Smallin
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life. — Abbas Kiarostami
Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need — Shahid Kapoor
People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. — George Carlin
In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing. — Elena Ferrante
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles A. Lindbergh
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles Lindbergh
Life Is Complicate Quotes
The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer. — Raymond Loewy
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy. — Sinclair Lewis
Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated. — Jack White
There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. — A. N. Wilson
It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time. — Guillaume Musso
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do. — Adrian Tan
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life. — George Perkins Marsh
What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be. — Anita Moorjani
Complicated Things Quotes
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that. — Chris Elliott
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. — Jean Cocteau
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. — Richard Branson
To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done. — Christina Koch
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme. — Ron Ben-Israel
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. — Gregory Skovoroda
It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways. — Naval Ravikant
One of the things people don't say enough about free speech is 'Yes, it causes harm but the harm is worth it.' And we don't make that argument because it's too honest and complicated and unpleasant. — Konstantin Kisin
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? — Enrico Bombieri
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
Complicated World Quotes
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence. — Allan Sandage
The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself. — Martha C. Nussbaum
The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions. — Marjane Satrapi
The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication. — Gregory Crewdson
Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us. — Steve Jobs
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. — Charles R. Swindoll
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. — Arundhati Roy
We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it. — Phil Condit
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does. — David Rubenstein
Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. — Sivananda
Its Complicated Quotes
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it. — Soren Kierkegaard
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 — Desmond Tutu
My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down. — Anthony Jeselnik
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. — Wen Ho Lee
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect. — Richard Neal
We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. — Brad Bird
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. — Maria Cantwell
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us. — Francis Crick
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. — Sylvia Boorstein
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. — Arian Foster
Complicit Quotes
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. — Pierre Bourdieu
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them. — Jackson Katz
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. — Edward Zwick
There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction. — Chris Hedges
If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. — Shelley Morrison
We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression. — Marc Lamont Hill
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation? — Cynthia McKinney
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality. — Azar Nafisi
Our dark lust for competitive domination leads us to complicit acts of murder from-a-distance, through tax-supported militarism. — Bryant H. McGill
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become. — Haim Ginott
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser. — Che Guevara
Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural.
Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow. — Yasmin Mogahed
To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify. — Bruno Munari
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. — Michio Kaku
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
Transgender medicine increases psychiatric burden of disease, creates side effects on steroids, inflicts surgical complications and sterility, and raises mortality from all causes. Transgender Medicine equals Bad Medicine. No ethical doctor, nurse, or assistant should do this! — Peter A. McCullough
Making the simple complicated is commonplace, Charles Mingus once said. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Rick Rubin
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks. — James David Vance
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it. — Judith McNaught
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me. — Helmut Newton
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