The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution. There are no bystanders who get to claim no impact. What… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I… — Elliot Cowan Copy Share Image
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Governments and their hired negotiators are designing the supranational rules and pressing for their adoption and for compliance - and the US… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
One day Barack Obama targets one group or business, the next day he targets another. Never, ever does he take responsibility for… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“All abusive systems are facilitated by bystanders, whose awareness of what is disavowed is always partial, resulting in a state of knowing… — Sylvia Solinski Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
From the Latin word "imponere", base of the obsolete English "impone" and translated as "impress" in modern English, Nordic hackers have coined… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common sense and… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When things get difficult I don't want bystanders, I need those who will stand by me — 20something Copy Share Image
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct. — William James Copy Share Image
Being a passive bystander is not a 'crime.' All of us have been passive bystanders at some point in our lives. — Jackie Fuchs Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image