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“Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.”

“This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion”

Ends Use Film Cases Clear Modern Humour Distance Pops Critical Advertising Spy Ambiguity Complicity Allusion Collusion

Book:The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

Source: The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures

“If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.”

Ifs Faces Humanity Choices Crime Direct Crisis West Climate Proportion Global Warming Refugee Unimaginable Complicity Refugee Crisis Crimes Against Humanity

Author:George Monbiot

“It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.”

People Ifs Men Firsts Country Evil Lost Black Steps Crime Pride Personality Birth Dignity Empty Supreme Allowing Realising Vehicle First Steps Shells Reign Pumps Complicity Misused Empty Shell

Author:Steven Biko

“The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.”

Doe Responsibility Tasks Oppression Resisting Complicity

Book:Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

Source: Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

“The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.”

Feelings Sex Intimacy Complicity True Feelings

Book:Sorties

Source: Sorties

“Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.”

Use Team Drug Doctors Scientist Method Complexes Active Technique Substance Officials Cheating Sophisticated Deliberate Riders Complicity Drug Use

Author:Dick Pound

“That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.”

Evidence Essence Proof Witch Questioning Hunts Procedures Complicity Witch Hunt

Author:Bergen Evans

“Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.”

Men Moments Values Felt Loss Meditation Honesty Emotional Accounts Infinite Compelling Casual Starks Selective Value Of Life Complicity Emotional Honesty

Author:Peter Ho Davies

“We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.”

Knows Men Way Children Silence Ignorance Despair Roots Hatred Committed Innocent Indifference Bigotry Combat Intolerance Consent Men Women Atrocities Complicity Innocent Man

Author:Gabrielle Giffords

“I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.”

Thinking Way Giving Writing Book Attention Situation Audience Lessons Activity Normal Capture Professors Writing A Book Theatrical Complicity Exhibitionist

Author:Umberto Eco

“Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.”

Photography Luck Foresight Complicity

Author:John Stuart Mill

“The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.”

Firsts Government Gains Tyranny Complicity

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty.”

Liberty Share Destruction Phenomenon Complicity

Author:Barbara Amiel

“The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.”

Needs Felt Cases Worst Masters Taste Disaster Imaginative Scenarios Uncontrollable Complicity Worst Case Scenario

Author:Susan Sontag

“In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.”

People Groups Tension Affinity Complicity

Author:Guillaume Canet

“While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.”

Law Strong Nations Company Activity Borders Internals Illegal Southern Imperatives Secured Complicity Illegal Activities

Author:Elton Gallegly

“My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.”

People Way Parent Virtue Teaching Raised Profession Medical Engaged Grandparent Lives Of Others Priesthood Medical Profession Complicity Parents And Grandparents

Author:Colin Firth

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