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Complicit Quotes

We’ve collected the best Complicit Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Ryan Bingham, Paolo Bacigalupi, K. A. Applegate, Winnie Byanyima, Bruno Heller. Use them as an inspiration.

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I think it’s really important for everybody out there to speak their minds, and not be complicit and let fear back you into this corner where you just let everything go by. It’s a responsibility.
Ryan Bingham
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we’re up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don’t feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it’s an act of complicit cruelty.
K. A. Applegate
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I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we – humanitarians – have been complicit.
Winnie Byanyima
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The evil of storytelling is you’re trying to make the audience complicit in murder – ‘Kill the guy! Jump him!’ And then once you’ve done it, it’s like, ‘I’ve killed this guy, now what?’
Bruno Heller
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The media is complicit in fear mongering.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
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To be silent is to be complicit.
Richard Edelman
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If you’re governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
J. B. Pritzker
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If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we’re complicit.
Shelley Morrison
10
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.
Peter Singer
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When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
Martin Freeman
12
Since I’m in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, ‘Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?’
Hill Harper
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We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won‘t be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.
Kevin de Leon
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The thing I love about theater is the fact that everyone‘s complicit. We’re either there as a storyteller, or we’re there as a listener, and it’s basically a campfire situation.
Sarah Goldberg
15
As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm‘s way.
Robert J. Bentley
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Marciano was an idol in a simpler era, when professional athletes were heroes and sportswriters were complicit in building legends rather than exposing them. To the public, all that really mattered was that Rocky had 49 wins in 49 fights and retired in 1956 as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world.
Thomas Hauser
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As long as we suspect female actors of being somehow complicit in their own victimization, as willing participants in their own humiliation, we shame the victim and enable the culture of silence that allows predators to act with impunity.
Connie Nielsen
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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
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I’ve always been drawn more to film. But ‘Bloodline,’ to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story.
Norbert Leo Butz
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Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
Hanya Yanagihara
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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 guess I’ve accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It’s too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
Martin McDonagh