Colin Firth

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

British Actor

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

French Poet

Toni Morrison

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

American Novelist

Victoria Abril

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Spanish Actress

Pramila Jayapal

History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence.

American Politician

James Dickey

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

Rebecca MacKinnon

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

American Journalist

Ry Cooder

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

American Musician

Michelle Malkin

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

American Writer

Lynn Nottage

American Playwright

Complicity carries a negative feeling, suggesting involvement in wrongdoing.

Negative Connotation

Often used in legal or crime-related contexts to describe aiding unlawful acts.

Legal Context

Using 'complicity' implies a moral judgment against the actions taken.

Moral Implication

 the expansion of African oil palm plantations. These were planted on illicit lands, on lands illicitly purchased, very close to the Mosquitia, in fact, moving in to the Mosquitia and the result, of course, is that the money narcos can manipulate buys complicity with government officials,

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 nor what I ever try to knock the necessity known as black culture but what I am saying is this by claiming blackness as who we are we've been coerced into complicity into reminding

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 that made their wealth possible he challenged the wealthy to think about inequality and their complicity indeed the complicity of many generous donors

Complicity

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Legal Context

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