Bystander Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare… — Thomas Paine
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… — Peter Davenport
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… — Dorothea Lange
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, donâ€™t put a character in a room alone â€“… — Les Standiford
I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I… — Jon Rappoport
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We… — David van Dantzig
It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have… — Winston Churchill
I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we… — Yehuda Bauer
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. — Daniel Goleman
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel
Don't settle! Embrace a dream--and keep dreaming. Don't be a bystander. Take it personally. — Howard Schultz
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept… — Sam Kean
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've… — Jhumpa Lahiri
I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that… — Elliot Cowan
And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander. — Yehuda Bauer
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills… — Jeffrey Kluger
I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just… — Howard Schultz
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little… — Michael Eric Dyson
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… — Terry Pratchett

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