A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. (“A thousand times”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

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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.

~ William L. Hubbard

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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.

~ Vijay Iyer

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This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

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... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.

~ Iris Murdoch

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Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

~ Hafiz

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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

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

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