Accomplices Quotes

• All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

  Steve Almond

  Lying, Reading, Writing

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• When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

  Saul Bellow

  Funny, Humor, Advice

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• To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Evil, Good And Evil

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Freedom, Liberty, Literature

  "See It Now" (CBS), March 7, 1954.

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• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  Bess Myerson

  Moral Corruption, Indifference, Crime

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• The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Joseph Conrad (2011). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.147, The Floating Press

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• He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

  Charles Peguy

  Truth, Honesty, Liars

  'Lettre du Provincial' 21 December 1899, in 'Basic Verities' (1943) p. 46

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• Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Life, Abet

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Taken, People, Liberty

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  Voltaire

  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• Art is the accomplice of love.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Art Is

  Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”

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• You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

  Naomi Judd

  Next, Victim, Next Time

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• Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

  George Steiner

  Men, Apathy, Indifference

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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• I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Soul, Needs

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.

  Guillaume Faye

  Giving Up, Cities, Evil

  Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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• We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  World, Want, Bed

  "The Devil and the Good Lord". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 3, sc. 6, 1951.

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• There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mean, Objectivity, Giving

  "Television; Five Years Later, The Gulf War Story Is Still Being Told". Article by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. May 12, 1996.

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• More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Mother, Son, Solitude

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  Gail Sheehy

  Change, Unnecessary, Deny

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Military, Punishment, President

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• I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

  Peter Shaffer

  Frustration, My Own

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• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

  Will Rogers

  Hands, Prison, Goods

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.164, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Love, Art, Art Is

  Remy de Gourmont (1921). “Decadence and Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas”

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• So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

  Antonin Artaud

  Nastiness, Asylums, Madness

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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