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• [My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

  Muriel Spark

  Being In Love, Long, Imagination

  Muriel Spark (2001). “Loitering with Intent”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

  Pope John Paul II

  Abortion, Crime, Penalties

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

  Hermann Hesse

  Peace, War, Our World

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• One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

  Hakim Bey

  Expression, People, Justice

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• In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

  James Comey

  People, Evil, Mind

  "Why I Require FBI Agents to Visit the Holocaust Museum". Speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2015.

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• He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doers, Injury

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Insane

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• We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Evil, Politics, Crime

  "Kim Jong-il's Willing Accomplices" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. May 24, 2010.

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• When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Evil, Triumph

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4190, Library of Alexandria

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• Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?

  Beth Moore

  Insecurity, Needs, Lines

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.27, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

  J. C. Ryle

  Thinking, Devil, Looks

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• The Jews form a state, and, obeying their own laws, they evade those of their host country. the Jews always considered an oath regarding a Christian not binding. During the Campaign of 1812 the Jews were spies, they were paid by both sides, they betrayed both sides. It is seldom that the police investigate a robbery in which a Jew is not found either to be an accomplice or a receiver.

  Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

  Christian, Country, Law

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• APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Physicians, Graves

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

  William Kent Krueger

  Night, Doubt, Sinner

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• Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.

  Cyril Connolly

  Food, Cooking, Abuse

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• To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Mother, Brother

  "Pope Francis Takes On Mafia, Corruption In Naples" by Philip Pullella, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2015.

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• This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Liars, White

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• At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors for treason, ordered the creation of a new carp pool and banned limericks. Worse still, no progress had been made in tracking down the Kleptomancer, and of the two people believed to be his accomplices, both had been released from prison and one had been appointed food taster. Right-Eye was not amused. He had known for centuries that he could trust nobody but himself. Now he was seriously starting to wonder about himself.

  Frances Hardinge

  Sleep, Eye, Two

  Frances Hardinge (2012). “A Face Like Glass”, p.109, Pan Macmillan

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• And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mistake, Flower, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Catastrophe

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this text, which otherwise never quite makes it, our relation is that of a structurally posthumous necessity. Suppose, in that case, that I am not alone in my claim to know the idiomatic code (whose notion itself is already contradictory) of this event. What if somewhere, here or there, there are shares in this non-secret’s secret? Even so the scene would not be changed. The accomplices, as you are once again well aware, are also bound to die.

  Jacques Derrida

  What If, Doubt, Secret

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• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

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• the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mistake, Past, Illusion

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Fate, People

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

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