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- Nov 07, 2020
Complicit Quotes
On the quiet ways we go along with things.
These quotes turn complicit into something closer to self-examination, like one performer calling a childhood memory of circus animal acts an act of complicit cruelty by today's standards. It connects well with Act quotes on personal responsibility.
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- Branded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
As your Governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm's way.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like a complicit - there was complicity between the churches and the state in taking care of the 'Indian problem,' solving the 'Indian problem,' and trying to change who we were.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must, do much better than that.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020