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title: "3 Bystanders Quotes By Yehuda Bauer"
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> [The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/the-horror-of-the-holocaust-is-not-that-it-deviated-from-human-norms/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

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> [And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/and-thou-shalt-never-but-never-be-a-bystander/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

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> [I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/i-come-from-a-people-who-gave-the-ten-commandments-to-the-world-time/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

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## Other authors on Bystanders

- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bystanders/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

## More by 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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/the-horror-of-the-holocaust-is-not-that-it-deviated-from-human-norms/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

> [“Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/thou-shalt-not-be-a-victim-thou-shalt-not-be-a-perpetrator-but-above/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

> [The establishment of the state of Israel is not the result of the Holocaust. It is almost a result of the fact that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/the-establishment-of-the-state-of-israel-is-not-the-result-of-the/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

> [And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/and-thou-shalt-never-but-never-be-a-bystander/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

> [The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/the-public-still-repeats-time-after-time-the-silly-story-that-at/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

> [I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/i-come-from-a-people-who-gave-the-ten-commandments-to-the-world-time/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

> [“Do not be a perpetrator. Do not be a bystander. Do not be a victim.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yehuda-bauer/do-not-be-a-perpetrator-do-not-be-a-bystander-do-not-be-a-victim/)

[Yehuda Bauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yehuda-bauer/)

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