Top 47 Bystander Quotes
#1. Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
#2. 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
#3. In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man, highly skilled gawpers.
Terry Pratchett
#4. It is not open to the cool bystander ... to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.
Winston Churchill
#5. The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.
Mark Steyn
#7. In any great narrative, there is a moment when a character must decide to become more than a bystander.
Jeff Goins
#8. 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
#9. The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.
Arthur Helps
#10. Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,' said Carrot
'What, in Ankh-Morpork?'
'Yes, sir.'
'We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value
Terry Pratchett
#11. Do not be a perpetrator. Do not be a bystander. Do not be a victim.
Yehuda Bauer
#12. 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 that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
Thomas Paine
#13. 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 opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#14. Being a bystander to suffering is not an option.
Peter Singer
#15. Be an active bystander because sooner or later you or someone you love could be a victim too.
Shahla Khan
#16. Too often Jesus Christ was not my Master but a bystander I visited with at church occasionally.
James MacDonald
#17. I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.
Alice Sebold
#18. Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
Daniel Goleman
#19. Don't sit back and be a bystander of your own life
Caprice Crane
#20. the "attackers" - forming such a slick, seductive narrative that the average citizen - the "victim" - was almost an afterthought. "Bystander A" was glimpsed only in passing.
No One
#21. You can either be a bystander who lives his life in reaction to the decisions that others make, or you can be the leader who is making those decisions.
Gabrielle Zevin
#22. She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#23. And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
#24. In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#25. The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.
Marcus Aurelius
#27. There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.
Louise Penny
#28. At its core, black theology is predicated on the assertion that God has a unique relationship with African Americans. God is not a passive bystander in human history but rather an active participant in the struggles of oppressed and dispossessed people.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#29. Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician ... and we were all born to be magicians.
Dianna Hardy
#30. 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 theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.
Elliot Cowan
#31. [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.
William James
#32. ...A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.
Douglas C. Jones
#33. It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.
Timothy Snyder
#34. What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
Elie Wiesel
#35. 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
#36. I don't want to be 'the magician'; I want to be an innocent bystander along with the magical moment.
Michael Carbonaro
#37. 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
#38. help us to live with more confidence that Jesus is the Good Shepherd, not a consulting partner; a very present Lord, not an absentee landlord; the reigning King, not an impotent bystander.
Scotty Smith
#39. A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know.
Jon Ronson
#40. To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.
John Sentamu
#41. Violence between the combatants may be called war; violence by the bystander against the combatants may be called law. The Leviathan theory, in a nutshell, is that law is better than war.
Steven Pinker
#42. I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan
Francine Prose
#43. 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 ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
#44. 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 couldn't be a bystander.
Howard Schultz
#46. 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 as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.
Michael Eric Dyson
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