Severn Cullis-Suzuki

I feel angry that I have been born into a society where, by no choice of my own, by no agreement, by no actual decision, I am inherently complicit in the destruction of the world. It is hard to do the right thing. You have to be militant. You have to be an activist. You have to be branded as green to do the right thing.

Canadian Activist

Paolo Bacigalupi

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

American Writer

Hill Harper

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?

American Actor

Jim Wallis

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?

Hanya Yanagihara

Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

American Novelist

George W. Bush

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

American President

J. B. Pritzker

If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

Argentinian Businessman

K. A. Applegate

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

Miriam Toews

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

Canadian Writer

Richard Edelman

American Businessman

Complicit carries a negative implication of being deliberately involved in something bad.

Negative Connotation

Often used in legal or news reports to suggest involvement in unethical or illegal acts.

Legal Context

Being complicit doesn't always mean actively participating, but sometimes knowingly allowing it.

Passive Role

 smelters and production factories in Asia when it's turned into electronic products those electronic products are then shipped to stores around the world and we buy them so we are complicit in this conflict more than anyone we have a responsibility more than anyone to engage and increase our knowledge about

The Power of Photography...

 But there's so many men who care deeply about these issues, but caring deeply is not enough. We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 In this barren world, Montag learns how difficult it is to resist when there's nothing left to hold on to. Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait of independent thought on the brink of extinction - and a parable about a society which is complicit in its own combustion.

Why should you read...

 confirmed that my own government had been complicit in issuing this travel alert against me. And since then, I haven't traveled to any other countries, because I'm afraid I'll be detained and deported from those countries as well. These travel restrictions, detentions

Erika Pinheiro: What's...

 They are fleeing some of the worst violence in the world. They've been attacked by gangs, assaulted, raped, extorted, threatened. They have faced death. And they can't turn to their police because the police are complicit, corrupt, ineffective.

Luis H. Zayas: The...

 We told ourselves we were fighting for the oppressed, but these were unwinnable wars. We became the very instrument through which more deaths occurred, complicit in causing further misery for the selfish benefit of the cruel few.

Inside the mind of a...

 so these kids have a voice; the will of companies to take action and make sure that their platforms are not complicit in the abuse of a child; the will of governments to invest with their law enforcement

How we can eliminate...

 and otherwise um are complicit with anti-black racism within um the various facets of the suffrage movement this means that the suffrage associations that we most frequently associate with the road to

Black Women and the...

 it's a world city. Like all our cities, it's dedicated to toil, trade and traffic. It's a machine to get you to work on time and back, and we're all complicit in wanting the routines to be fixed

Art that transforms...

 publicly and privately, in small ways and in large ways. We must do the things that will bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice. To do nothing is to be complicit in inequality.

Complicit

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