History Quotes / BystanderSyndrome

-->--'''Tak''', ''InvaderZim''

->''...and in this footage you can see various pedestrians who clearly don't give a shiit that somebody near them just collapsed and died.''

->''...and in this footage you can see various pedestrians who clearly don't give a $h!t that somebody near them just collapsed and died.''

-->--'''KickAss''', thoroughly ''averting'' this trope

->'''Security Guard''': What's the matter with you, mister?? All you hadda do was trip him! Or hold him for just a minute!
->'''Spider-Man''': Sorry, pal! That's ''your'' job!
-->--''[[{{Comicbook/Spider-Man}} Amazing Fantasy #15]]

-> ''Can't someone else do it?''
-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]]''''s slogan when running for Sanitation Commissioner

->''The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who stand by and do nothing.''
-->-- '''AlbertEinstein'''

--> -- '''[[Manga/DeathNote L]]''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5C0EvT01k&feature=PlayList&p=03389DC24AABE458&index=6 Death Note: The Abridged Series]] [[WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeries1KidsEntertainment (1KidsEntertainment)]]''

--> -- '''[[Manga/DeathNote L]]''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5C0EvT01k&feature=PlayList&p=03389DC24AABE458&index=6 Death Note: The Abridged Series]]''

-->--'''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8 "Iron Man"]]''', ''Music/BlackSabbath''

-->--'''Music/BlackSabbath''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjbMVXj0F8 "Iron Man"]]''

-->--'''Want you Gone''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'''

-->--'''Music/BlackSabbath''', ''"Iron Man"''

->''"It's like a blind spot. It's something you don't see, or can't see, or your brain doesn't let you see because it assumes that it's Somebody. Else's. Problem."''
-->-- '''Ford Prefect''', ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' (though this is actually describing a PerceptionFilter)

->''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.\\
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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.''
-->''Discworld/MakingMoney''

-> '''Superman:''' Tell [the drug dealers] I plan to come back every few weeks. I'll [burn their stashes down] again and again until they leave. \\
'''Kid:''' Okay, but you ''know'' they're just gonna set up somewhere else, over there-- \\
'''Superman:''' Yes, but they won't be ''here'' anymore, and that's a step in the right direction. See, in the end, all we can do is look at where we ''are'', at where we're ''standing'', and say we will not allow it ''here''. ''Over there'' has to stand for itself, has to ''speak'' for itself. Because it's only when ''over there'' becomes ''here'' that we can stop this once and for all.
-->-- ''Franchise/{{Superman}} #701''

->''' Sgt. Donovan''': Sir, there's been a break-in! \\
''' DI Lestrade''': Not our division!
-->-- Series/{{Sherlock}}

->''At minimum, by this point, you should not give a shit. Regular readers of this space should have the mental fortitude to not give'' two ''shits... and advanced apathy masters can fail to give anywhere between three and five shits.''
-->-- '''Bryan Lambert''', ''YouAreDumb''

->''...and in this footage you can see various pedestrians who clearly don't give a $h!t that somebody near them just collapsed and died.''
--> -- '''[[Manga/DeathNote L]]''', ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g5C0EvT01k&feature=PlayList&p=03389DC24AABE458&index=6 Death Note: The Abridged Series]]''

->"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."
-->-- Two '''unnamed citizens''', overheard on the 61st floor by the people who caused said ruckus, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''

->''That's your problem. Givin' a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.''
-->--'''"Bunk" Moreland''', ''TheWire''

->''It's a very tragic event, okay? But the simple fact remains I do not know this little girl. I do not know starving children in Panama. I do not know people who die of disease in Egypt. The only person I knew in this event was Jeremy Strohmeyer and I know as his best friend that he had potential. I'm sad that I lost a best friend.''
-->-- RealLife {{Jerkass}} '''David Cash''', on why he accepts no blame for not stopping his friend from molesting and murdering a little girl

->''Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men.''
-->-- The '''Monsignor''', ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''

->''And no one cares. You kick and scream and cry out into the darkness, and no one comes. You rage against the unfathomable injustice and two blocks away some guy watches a baseball game and scratches his balls.''
->''Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between the stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don’t know what it is. Well I know. it's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives A Fuck.''
-->-- '''David Wong,''' ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''

-->-- '''Rorschach''', ''ComicBook/Watchmen''

-> ''Can't someone else do it?''
-->-- '''Homer Simpson''''s slogan when running for Sanitation Commissioner

-->-- '''TomLehrer''', "Wehner Von Braun"

-->-- Two '''unnamed citizens''', overheard on the 61st floor by the people who caused said ruckus, ''FinalFantasyVII''

-->-- {{Sherlock}}

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