Bystanders Quotes · Page 3

We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander's eyes the…

— William James

I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome.…

— Paul Saffo

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

— William S. Burroughs

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.

— Anonymous

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

— Elie Wiesel

There was no one left to speak for me

— Martin Niemoller

One day Barack Obama targets one group or business, the next day he targets another. Never, ever does he take responsibility for…

— Rush Limbaugh

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be…

— Howard Schultz

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for…

— Molly Harper

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching…

— Robert Reed

I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They…

— David Simon

In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

— Ambrose Bierce

Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US…

— Thomas Pogge

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

— Elie Wiesel

How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is…

— David van Dantzig

It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modern state to ensure by all means necessary that its government adheres…

— Ward Churchill

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life

— Caprice Crane

But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm…

— Beryl Markham

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

— Mark Steyn

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

— Francis Galton

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

— Elie Wiesel