Bystander Effect Quotes

“Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them.”
― Steven Pinker, Rationality

“When community standards are enforced, there is constraint and cooperation. When everyone minds his own business and looks the other way, there is freedom and anomie.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“And you can also commi injustice by doing nothing.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The most I could do was live this small bit of understanding as my truth, and hope others understood as well. That they would exhibit the truth in their own actions and words. That they would help one-another. That they would become good people. You rarely saw that anymore between the bystander effect and people simply being unknowledgeable about how to help others who were in need. Some, perhaps, did not even care.”
― D.M. Shiro, The Grate

“People are like the tall grasses of the field. They will bend in whatever direction the wind blows.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon