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• Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.

  Ellen Battelle Dietrick

  Religious, Father, People

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• The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act of complicity with violence, and violence against Israelis, understood as synonymous with Jews, and so violence against Jews, clearly stops the speech with an unspeakable allegation.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Space, Speech

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

  Barbara Kruger

  Careers, Tragedy, Rumor

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.219, MIT Press

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• Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility, his intelligence is sharp without being cruel, his mood is sympathetic without complicity.

  Octavio Paz

  Writing, Adventure, Nerves

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• Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Giving, Joy

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• Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Honesty, Loss, Men

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• Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

  John Stuart Mill

  Photography, Luck, Foresight

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• Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility

  "The Case Against Henry Kissinger. Part Two. Crimes against humanity". www.thirdworldtraveler.com. March 2001.

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• In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

  Guillaume Canet

  People, Groups, Affinity

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• Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.

  Ali Abunimah

  Support, Cracks, Pillars

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• The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

  Jean Cocteau

  Enchantment, World, Fancy

  Jean Cocteau (1966). “The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

  Sarah Hall

  Kissing, Suffering, Firsts

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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• The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.

  John Carroll

  Men, Groups, Degrees

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.43, Taylor & Francis

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• He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

  Victor Hugo

  Sorrow, One Day, Details

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2050, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

  Samantha Power

  Evil, Stories, Genocide

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• I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

  Hedi Slimane

  Emotion, Intimacy, Distraction

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There is nothing more humanly beautiful than a woman's breasts. Nothing more humanly beautiful, nothing more humanly mysterious than why men should want to caress, over and over again, with paintbrush or chisel or hand, these oddly curved fatty sacs, and nothing more humanly endearing than our complicity (I mean the complicity of women) in their obsession.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

  Allan Boesak

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

  Michael Novak

  Reality, Discovery, Self

  Michael Novak (1993). “The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit”, p.172, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.

  Edward S. Herman

  People, World, Majority

  Edward S. Herman (1982). “The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda”, p.10, South End Press

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• A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the roles of slave and master for the sake of the relationship is never more clearly demonstrated than in the course of an affair. Never is the complicity between victim and executioner more essential. Even chained, down on her knees, begging for mercy, it is the woman, finally, who is in command ... the all powerful slave, dragging herself along the ground at her master's heels, is now really the god. The man is only her priest, living in fear and trembling of her displeasure.

  Anne Desclos

  Powerful, Women, Love Is

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• My strong sense of discipline has always been with me, and it also gave me the need for deep affection. I have never been satisfied with acquaintances who are superficial, volatile, or quick to change. I have surrounded myself with people with whom I am in total complicity.

  Giorgio Armani

  Strong, Deep Affection, Discipline

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Example, Rumination

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• Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Grateful, Self, Survival

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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