#complicit

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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. ↗

— George Tenet

#against #al #america #any #authority

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. ↗

— Richard Pound

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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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

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But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in? ↗

— Jim Wallis

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It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess. ↗

— Will Oldham

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

— Barbara Amiel

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The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. ↗

— James Dickey

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