History Quotes / BystanderSyndrome

->On the "dumbest" level, one can watch Film/{{Borat|SubsequentMoviefilm}} as making fun of Eastern Europeans, and from the number of people who came away from [[Film/{{Borat}} the 2006 film]] repeating the catchphrases "Very nice" and "My wife," I do think [[MisaimedFandom there are some who saw the butt of the joke as Kazakhstan rather than America]]. A slightly more sophisticated analysis sees Borat as an expose of the many kinds of racist, sexist Republicans who populate Middle America. But, while I am no fan of Republicans, I think that view allows liberal viewers to let themselves off the hook, by seeing ''those other'' Americans--the ones with the backward views--as the ones being lampooned.\\

-->--''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Amazing Fantasy]] [[ComicBook/AmazingFantasyNumberFifteen #15]]''

->'''Robby Robinson''': 90 fucking priests in Boston alone? If there were 90 of these bastards, people would know.\\

->"I thought I heard a ruckus downstairs a minute ago. Do you know what that was all about?"\\
"No idea. But no need to worry because everything above the 60th floor is safe."

->''Some of the things you could learn up a drainpipe at night were surprising. For example, people paid attention to small sounds — the click of a window catch, the clink of a lockpick — more than they did to big sounds, like a brick falling into the street or even (for this was, after all, Ankh-Morpork) a scream.\\

These were loud sounds which were therefore public sounds, which in turn meant they were everyone’s problem and, therefore, not mine. But small sounds were nearby and suggested such things as stealth betrayed, and so were pressing and personal.''

->The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

->The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

-->--''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Amazing Fantasy #15]]''

->''That's your problem. Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.''

->It is collective security: it is the very existence of the League of Nations. It is the confidence that each State is to place in international treaties. It is the value of promises made to small States that their integrity and their independence shall be respected and ensured. It is the principle of the equality of States on the one hand, or otherwise the obligation laid upon small Powers to accept the bonds of vassalship. In a word, it is international morality that is at stake. Have the signatures appended to a Treaty value only in so far as the signatory Powers have a personal, direct and immediate interest involved?

-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', on [[{{GIFT}} online harassment of women]].

-->--'''John Kildare''', ''Film/TheLimehouseGolem'''

-->-- RealLife {{Jerkass}} '''David Cash''', on why he accepts no blame for not stopping his friend from molesting and murdering a little girl

-> '''[[TricksterArchetype Loki]]''': Who knows? [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt It]]'s not my problem.
-> '''Skuld''': But there could be consequences not just for Midgard, but for Asgard, Alfheim and all the worlds!

-->-- A conversation in the game ''Valkyrie Connect''

->''You're someone else's problem / Now I only want you gone''
-->--'''Want you Gone''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

-->''Discworld/MakingMoney''

-->-- '''Edmund Burke'''

->''"If you’re thinking "Come on, that doesn’t seem like that big a problem", congratulations on your white penis."''

->''"If you’re thinking "Come on, that doesn’t seem like that big a problem", congratulations on your white penis."''
-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', on [[{{GIFT}} online harassment of women]].