Tacit Quotes

You walk into a nice strip club, the ones where the women are treated well - obviously `well` is debatable - and the women just seem so powerful. Women have full control; they can get whatever they want from these guys. But they realise it is a tacit contract: they are that way because men want them to be like that. Obviously, if the men wanted them on the floor scrubbing their shoes they`d probably be doing that too.

I was just a poor student. I had no interest in it. When I make a film the tacit contract with the audience is that I will give them some entertainment and not bore them. I have to do that. I just lay a message on them. Great filmmakers, like Ingmar Bergman or Akira Kurosawa or Federico Fellini, they`re very entertaining, their films are fun. Well, in college they never made it entertaining for me, they just bored me stiff.

Money doesn`t mind if we say it`s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It`s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it.

This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.