Complicit Quotes

“When I’d heard ‘abuse’, I’d thought of violence as being something simple... I hadn’t even considered the framework that allowed it to happen in the first place. The blind eyes turned, the excuses made, the insidious lies whispered into the ear of a child so desperate for love they mistook a gentle tone for truth.”
― Sara Barnard, Beautiful Broken Things

“If I were to do nothing, I'd be guilty of complicity.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Pagans can be just as monstrous as any other group. They can be murderers, rapists, pedophiles. We need to accept that they are our problem and deal with them. We need to speak against their crimes and challenge them rather than letting our silence make us complicit.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“If Buddhists think evil is unreal they must be mad! Thinking evil is unreal is holding hands with evil under the table!”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Indifference is acceptable from a vegetable, not from a human being.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“If taking a stand makes you a nutcase, be the nuttiest case that has ever walked.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“If we cannot speak the truth, let us at least not be complicit in lies.”
― Tarif Naaz

“Indifference is silent, so is realization, but the difference between the two is that the silence of indifference sustains a life of complacency, whereas the silence of realization pours in your veins such courage that you no longer are able to maintain indifference of any sort - wherever and whenever you see injustice and discrimination you leap in revolution - you leap with a strong conviction of equality and humaneness - you leap in an act of revolution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity

“Give the monkeys cinema and sports, they'll sleep through armageddon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Too many people are fighting to protect their political party rather than to preserve the truth.”
― Colin M. McGroarty

“One last thing. From the Capitol's perspective, the Games are the best propaganda we have. You tributes, you're our stars. You carry it out. But only if we control the narrative. Don't let us." Plutarch grasps my shoulders and gives me a little shake. "No more implicit submission for you, Haymitch Abernathy. Blow that water tank sky high. The entire country needs you to."

I can't help but think of Pa's directive to Sarshee Whitcomb. Seems like a lot to lay on my doorstep. Fix this mess for us, or else.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping