Accomplices Quotes

“There can be no friendship where there is cruelty, where there is disloyalty, where there is injustice. And in places where the wicked gather there is conspiracy only, not companionship: these have no affection for one another; fear alone holds them together; they are not friends, they are merely accomplices.”
― Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

“Oh no, she was never elitist. She said that far too many women are the accomplices of cruel, indifferent men. They lie for these men. They lie to their own children. Because their fathers treated them exactly the same way. These women always retain some hope that love is hiding behind the cruelty, so that the anguish doesn't drive them mad. Truth is, though, Max, there's no love there.
Max wiped a tear from the corner of his eye.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“One politician can not make a government. He needs accomplices.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land