Top 46 Quotes About Accomplices
#1. During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.
Sharon Kay Penman
#2. Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems.
Hubert Burda
#3. We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
Christopher Hitchens
#4. A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices
George Orwell
#5. The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
is that of accomplices in crime
Marlene Dietrich
#6. accomplices. This helped assure that the crowd would now move on to the next stage of the sound-and-light show - which
Douglas Preston
#7. All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Edwin M. Stanton
#8. Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
Subcomandante Marcos
#9. So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed and in the removal of its traces, almost felt, and almost looked, like accomplices in a horrible crime.
Charles Dickens
#11. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#12. The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.
Pope John Paul II
#13. To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.
Pope Francis
#14. It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
Jose Saramago
#15. If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.
Mao Tse-tung
#16. Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.
Noam Chomsky
#17. No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
#18. I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.
Albert Camus
#19. It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.
Elie Wiesel
#20. And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
Joyce Carol Oates
#21. I have tried to keep memory alive ... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
Elie Wiesel
#23. Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
George Steiner
#24. The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
Voltaire
#26. So he immolated himself. He made the sacrifice because he was a father; he went into voluntary exile. His daughters were satisfied, so he thought that he had done the best thing he could; but it was a family crime, and father and daughters were accomplices.
Honore De Balzac
#27. All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
Steve Almond
#28. Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
Cormac McCarthy
#29. Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
Gregory David Roberts
#30. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. And
Elie Wiesel
#31. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.
Antonin Artaud
#32. ...There is no friendship in the desert, there is no love. The Sahara only knows allies and accomplices. [Hopkins quoting B. Gysin's The Process]
John Hopkins
#33. Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
Mason Cooley
#34. Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
George Bernard Shaw
#35. Sin should be solitary and have no accomplices.
Oscar Wilde
#36. The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the educated classes, the lackeys of capital, who consider themselves the brains of the nation. In fact they are not its brains but its shit.
Vladimir Lenin
#37. Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?
Beth Moore
#38. The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.
Hermann Hesse
#39. In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.
James Comey
#40. If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.
Elie Wiesel
#43. You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.
Naomi Judd