#complicit

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#british #carries #complicity #construction #creation

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others ↗

— Iain Banks

#dystopia #greed #indictment #morality #nihilistic

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised. ↗

— Colin Firth

#been #complicity #engaged #grandparents #grown

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#complicity #dissent #protest #truth-telling #silence

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

#against #children #complicit #country #destruction

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

— Barbara Amiel

#complicity #destruction #liberty #much #phenomenon

While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#border #cannot #companies #complicity #enforce

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#ground #now #silence #speak #surrender

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit. ↗

— Shelley Morrison

#complacent #complicit #heads #our #put