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

  Naomi Judd

  Next, Victim, Next Time

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Fighting, Alive

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Mean, Doors

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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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• People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  People, Silence, Wish

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Two, Disease, Poverty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.314, e-artnow

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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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• I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

  John Galliano

  Want, Helping

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