Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
(n.) The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.
Elwood said, It's against the law. State law, but also Elwood's. If everyone looked the other way, then everybody was in on it. If he looked the other way, he was as implicated as the rest. That's how...
Male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying t...