When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.
Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
When people bully us, we are complicit in it in some way. We do allow it to happen to some extent.
When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
We Southerners are complicit in defining our region by what is peculiar about it.
We think that the answer is love and care at the end of life and not eliminating patients. This turns (care) 180 degrees and asks doctors to be complicit in something we find morally offensive.
The United States does not torture. We've said this numerous times in numerous venues. We follow law. The report cites no evidence of any secret prisons or any evidence that the United States was complicit in torture.
I am not going to apologize for saying that society is complicit in these fires, ... The ones that should apologize are the people that produce, tolerate and consent to these fires.
I am not aware of any evidence that the government in any way is complicit with what's going on.
How is it that you stand on a moral footing to go after the U.N. when they're responsible for 15 percent maybe of the ill-gotten gains, and we were part and complicit of him getting 85 percent of the money?