35 Quotes About Complicity

Why solicit more assaults from critics, many in the highest parts of our government, who have deliberately attempted to distract attention from the real issue of a compromised president’s corrupt complicity in Russian interference? Especially when, aside from required testimony, I have stayed silent for years. First out of duty to the FBI’s rules and then to protect and respect an ongoing investigation. Because the Russians haven’t gone away.

We cannot pander or wait for consensus; the world is too big and complicated and rigged. We are saying the things that people don't like.

But maybe my silence. Just made him feel more alone.Maybe my silence.Condones the ugly things people think.

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

Whether you attribute it to some mysterious triple package or to your own Horatio Alger story, to succeed in America is, somehow, to be complicit with the idea of America—which means that at some level you’ve made peace with its rather ugly past.

Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims.

The waterfall winks at every passerby.

The former East Germany hardly had a monopoly on complicity. Life’s every moment caught one out in one form or another.