History Quotes / BystanderSyndrome

"[[DefiedTrope Fuck it.]]" I dropped my backpack and ran down the alley.\\

[[WhoYouAreInTheDark As if that were the measure of everything]].\\

As if that were the measure of everything.\\

->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 smail 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?

-> '''[[TricksterArchetype Loki]]''': Who knows? It's not my problem.

->'''Alucard''': If you loose an army of the night on Wallachia, you cannot undo it, and many thousands of people just as innocent as [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes her]] will suffer and die.\\
'''Dracula''': '''There ''are'' no innocents! Not anymore!''' Any one of them could have stood up and said, "No, we won't behave like animals anymore."
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017''

->''"Once ze rockets go up, who cares where zhey come down? That's not my department" - says Wehner Von Braun.''
-->-- '''Music/TomLehrer''', "Wehner Von Braun"

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017

-->-- '''Phil Ochs''', ''Outside of a Small Circle of Friends''

->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]].

-> 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 smail 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?

-> Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other. Should it happen that a strong Government finds it may with impunity destroy a weak people, then the hour strikes for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII God and history will remember your judgment]].

-->-- '''AlbertEinstein'''

-->-- '''Emperor Haile Selassie''', '''Address to the United Nations'''

--> 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 smail 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?

--> Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any nation that is superior to any other. Should it happen that a strong Government finds it may with impunity destroy a weak people, then the hour strikes for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII God and history will remember your judgment]].

->''There's a woman being grabbed
->''They've dragged her to the bushes
->''And now she's being stabbed
->''Maybe we should call the cops
->''And try to stop the pain
->''But Monopoly is so much fun
->''I'd hate to blow the game

->''And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody
->''Outside of a small circle of friends

->''Ridin' down the highway
->''Yes, my back is gettin' stiff
->''Thirteen cars are piled up
->''They're hangin' on a cliff
->''Now maybe we should pull them back
->''With our towin' chain
->''But we gotta move and we might get sued
->''And it looks like it's gonna rain

->''And I'm sure
->''It wouldn't interest anybody
->''Outside of a small circle of friends

->''Sweatin' in the ghetto
->''With the colored and the poor
->''The rats have joined the babies
->''Who are sleepin' on the floor
->''Now wouldn't it be a riot
->''If they really blew their tops?
->''But they got too much already
->''And besides we've got the cops

->''And I'm sure
->''It wouldn't interest anybody
->''Outside of a small circle of friends

->''Oh, there's a dirty paper
->''Using sex to make a sale
->''The Supreme Court was so upset
->''They sent him off to jail
->''Maybe we should help the fiend
->''And take away his fine
->''But we're busy reading Playboy
->''And the Sunday New York Times

->''And I'm sure
->''It wouldn't interest anybody
->''Outside of a small circle of friends

->''Smokin' marihuana
->''Is more fun than drinkin' beer
->''But a friend of ours was captured
->''And they gave him thirty years
->''Maybe we should raise our voices
->''Ask somebody why
->''But demonstrations are a drag
->''Besides we're much too high

->''And I'm sure
->''It wouldn't interest anybody
->''Outside of a small circle of friends

-->--'''"Bunk" Moreland''', ''TheWire''

-->--''[[{{ComicBook/Spider-Man}} Amazing Fantasy #15]]''

-->--''[[{{Comicbook/Spider-Man}} Amazing Fantasy #15]]''

-->.. ''Edmund Burke''