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  • Art is the accomplice of love. -- Remy de Gourmont
  • I was an accomplice in my own frustration. -- Peter Shaffer
  • Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. -- George Steiner
  • To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want. -- John Galliano
  • The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. -- Bess Myerson
  • When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -- Saul Bellow
  • No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. -- Remy de Gourmont
  • Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too. -- Clive Stafford Smith
  • The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. -- Joseph Conrad
  • A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. -- Will Rogers
  • He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. -- Charles Peguy
  • Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. -- Gail Sheehy
  • Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. -- Tom Robbins
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. -- Joseph Conrad
  • Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community. -- Ivan Illich
  • The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices. -- Mason Cooley
  • More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
  • No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. -- Edward R. Murrow
  • Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices. -- Subcomandante Marcos
  • Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems. -- Hubert Burda
  • The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime -- Marlene Dietrich
  • During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices. -- Sharon Kay Penman
  • We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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