Complicities Quotes & Sayings

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria. — Howard Zinn

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities. — Guillaume Canet

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste ... Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody. — Leonard Cohen

I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I'm going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it. — Cornel West

Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those. — Gregory David Roberts

Freedom is a universal value. — Jan Peter Balkenende

Jokes, secrets, complicities; a glance here, a word there: that is their way of being together, of being apart. — J.M. Coetzee

We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end. — Hunter S. Thompson

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did. — Chick Corea