Top Bystanders Quotes Collection

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Image of Elie Wiesel
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Elie Wiesel
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Edna O'Brien
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
- Edna O'Brien
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Image of Sonia Sotomayor
There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
- Sonia Sotomayor
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Image of Caprice Crane
Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life
- Caprice Crane
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Image of Tim Kaine
Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.
- Tim Kaine
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Image of Peter Davenport
The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing.... Many of the high-quality sighting reports involve certain objective aspects, which, to an open-minded bystander, are quite impressive.
- Peter Davenport
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Image of Charlie Musselwhite
Sometimes the spirit is playing you. I call it following the will of the music, and when that feeling shows up, you just go with it. It's almost like I'm a bystander. I'm watching this happening, and it's not a mental process. It's just spontaneous.
- Charlie Musselwhite
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Image of Yehuda Bauer
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.
- Yehuda Bauer
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Image of Yehuda Bauer
And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.
- Yehuda Bauer
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Image of Robert Reed
I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.
- Robert Reed
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Image of Leslie Ford
Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck.
- Leslie Ford
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Image of Dorothea Lange
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.
- Dorothea Lange
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Image of Curtis LeMay
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
- Curtis LeMay
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Image of Alice Sebold
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
- Alice Sebold
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Image of David Simon
I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire.
- David Simon
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Image of Terry Pratchett
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Jack McDevitt
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.
- Jack McDevitt
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Image of Curtis Sittenfeld
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
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Image of Elie Wiesel
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Elie Wiesel
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Image of William S. Burroughs
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
- William S. Burroughs
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Image of William S. Burroughs
There are no innocent bystanders.
- William S. Burroughs
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Daniel Goleman
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
- Daniel Goleman
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Image of Thomas Pogge
Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US government first and foremost. These governments are elected by us, funded by us, acting on our behalf, sensitive to our will, and so, we are not mere bystanders observing the injustice.
- Thomas Pogge
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Image of Stephen King
One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander's last meal.
- Stephen King
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