Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna O'Brien

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

Daniel Goleman

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

Elie Wiesel

Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Alice Sebold

I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement.

Curtis LeMay

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

Curtis Sittenfeld

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

Jack McDevitt

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

Albert Schweitzer

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Albert Schweitzer

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

Mahmoud Abbas

so it will become a model of civilization for the rest of the world.

Karen Hughes

More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.

Theodore Roosevelt

No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse

Diane Ravitch

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Dennis Prager

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one.

Denis Hayes

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

Dean Koontz

The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

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.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Denzel Washington

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Chiang Kai-shek

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.

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?