28 Quotes About Bystanders

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.

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.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.

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.

The measure of a civilization is in the courage, not of its soldiers, but of its bystanders.

There was no one left to speak for me

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

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.