Quotes about complicity

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Gyokuon-hōsō (1945)

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Night in Lisbon

Remark made by von Neumann as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1947, as mentioned by Franz L. Alt at the end of "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945--1947", Communications of the ACM, volume 15, issue 7, July 1972, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery, p. 694.

Nahj al-Balagha

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)

2005

Source: Katrín Jakobsdóttir (2021) cited in: " Iceland's left-right coalition takes office for second term https://www.dw.com/en/icelands-left-right-coalition-takes-office-for-second-term/a-59962630" in DW, December 2021.

Source: So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Variant: Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

American "Civilization" (from "Civilta Americana") http://lkwdpl.org/wildideas/mysticalgeography.html

From the trial transcript, as quoted in The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994)

Missundaztood, written by Pink and Linda Perry
Song lyrics, Missundaztood (2001)

"Complicated"
Let Go (2002)

Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi

André-Marie Ampère in: André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics http://books.google.co.in/books?id=QWZKQWB-sbQC&pg=PA158, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 158.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

Interview in "Secrets of the Old One" in Berkeley Groks (16 March 2005) http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/%7Efrank/BerkeleyGroks_Penrose.htm.
Context: Some years ago, I wrote a book called The Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. So we are not exactly computers. There's something else going on and the question of what this something else was would depend on some detailed physics and so I needed chapters in that book, which describes the physics as it is understood today. Well anyway, this book was written and various people commented to me and they said perhaps I could use this book for a course Physics for Poets or whatever it is if it didn't have all that contentious stuff about the mind in that. So I thought, well, that doesn't sound too hard, all I'll do is get out the scissor out and snip out all the bits, which have something to do with the mind. The trouble is that if I did that — and I actually didn't do it — the whole book fell to pieces really because the whole driving force behind the book was this quest to find out what could it be that constitutes consciousness in the physical world as we know it or as we hope to know it in future

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 3
Context: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have only three francs you are quite indifferent; for three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that. You are bored, but you are not afraid. You think vaguely, 'I shall be starving in a day or two--shocking, isn't it?' And then the mind wanders to other topics. A bread and margarine diet does, to some extent, provide its own anodyne. And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs--and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

Source: The Outermost House, 1928, p. 25: Ch 2

Source: The Perfect Hope

Variant: Progress is a man´s ability to comlicate simplicity.

Source: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

Source: I Hunt Killers

Source: Mortal Danger

Source: Small Favor

Source: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858

Journal entry (14 May 1915), p. 48
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916

Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: Because of Winn-Dixie

Source: Mort

Source: The Black Obelisk

Source: Carpe Jugulum

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

As quoted in " A Film of One's Own http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/magazine/03actesses.html" by Lynn Hirschberg at The New York Times (September 3, 2006)

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Source: The End (2006), Chapter 1

About being on the other side of the camera, in Davidtennant.com exclusive interview (February 2007)

Source: Speech in Aylesbury (14 November 1861), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 96

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 183

Source: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 4: Fire and Brimstone, Horns and Tail, p. 67

Hiawatha's Photographing st. 1 & 2
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld)
1930s

Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. I, p. 22

Speechless
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)

Source: 1930s-1950s, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), p. 388

alt.fan.pratchett (22 November 1993) http://www.lspace.org/ftp/words/pqf/pqf
Usenet

Brighton Rock (1938)

1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties

Source: Quotes, 1960 - 1970, The Pratt lecture (1960), p. 117

Keywords (1983)

The I.V.Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal (1934)

André-Marie Ampè, in André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics http://books.google.co.in/books?id=QWZKQWB-sbQC&pg=PA159, Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 159

2001 - 2010, Isa Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans' (2003)

As quoted in BusinessWeek (25 May 1998) http://www.businessweek.com/1998/21/b3579165.htm
1990s

Dreams and Facts https://users.drew.edu/jlenz/br-dreams.html (1919)
1910s

Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face

J'accuse! (1898)

Book XXVI, sec. 11
History of Rome

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

The Limits of State Action (1792)

2008, A More Perfect Union (March 2008)

2011, Address on interventions in Libya (March 2011)
Context: When one of our airmen parachuted to the ground, in a country whose leader has so often demonized the United States — in a region that has such a difficult history with our country — this American did not find enemies. Instead, he was met by people who embraced him. One young Libyan who came to his aid said, “We are your friends. We are so grateful to those men who are protecting the skies.”
This voice is just one of many in a region where a new generation is refusing to be denied their rights and opportunities any longer. 
Yes, this change will make the world more complicated for a time. Progress will be uneven, and change will come differently to different countries. There are places, like Egypt, where this change will inspire us and raise our hopes. And then there will be places, like Iran, where change is fiercely suppressed. The dark forces of civil conflict and sectarian war will have to be averted, and difficult political and economic concerns will have to be addressed. 
The United States will not be able to dictate the pace and scope of this change. Only the people of the region can do that. But we can make a difference.

Will and Mary in Ch. 33 : Marzipan
His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
Context: "When you stopped believing in God, did you stop believing in good and evil?"
"No. But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels."

Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 500.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)

The Emperor's Old Clothes
Context: There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature.

"With respect for Her Agony — but with Love" in LIFE magazine (7 February 1964)
Context: It is always and forever the same struggle: to perceive somehow our own complicity with evil is a horror not to be borne. … much more reassuring to see the world in terms of totally innocent victims and totally evil instigators of the monstrous violence we see all about us. At all costs, never disturb our innocence. But what is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. The perfection of innocence, indeed, is madness.

1860s, "If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong" (1864)
Context: In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

Glimpses of World History (1949)

Original: La donna attraente è semplicemente complicata, rigorosamente intelligente e dannatamente affascinante.
Source: prevale.net

Source: The Art of Seduction

Source: The Historian

Source: The Blind Assassin

Source: Proven Guilty

Statement in Mainliner (July 1977), as quoted in Creativity and the writing process (1982) by Olivia Bertagnolli, p. 182; also partly quoted in Survival Skills for Managers (1981) by Marlene Wilson, p. 19
Variant: Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
As quoted in The Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (1999) by Nils R. Varney and Richard J. Roberts, p. 303
Context: My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like and apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Jonah Ryan, Chapter 37, p. 336
Variant: I don't want to be a grown-up. … Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.
Source: 2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil