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bystanders fiction said
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. Edna O'Brien
bystanders toxic emotion
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. Daniel Goleman
bystanders holocaust remembrance
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel
bystanders holocaust remembrance
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.
bystanders silence holocaust
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
bystanders friendly levels
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. Alice Sebold
bystanders killing innocent
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders. Curtis LeMay
bystanders realizing destruction
She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it. Curtis Sittenfeld
bystanders internet-access people
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
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again. Aiden Wilson Tozer
civilization doubt moral
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
soldier firsts said
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. Chris Bohjalian
soldier revolution empty
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. Chiang Kai-shek
soldier united-states proud
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. Buffalo Bill
soldier devil may
Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil. Cal Thomas
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo. Kurt Vonnegut
soldier liberty borders
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. Frederic Bastiat
soldier green stories
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything! Denzel Washington
soldier conventions obsolete
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? Charles Schumer
soldier firsts etc
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc. Charles Fourier