Yehuda Bauer Quotes

And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.

Yehuda Bauer

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• Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Face

• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Great
  • Done
  • Accountability

• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Principles

• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Important
  • She

• I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Dark

• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Value
  • Interest
  • Finance

• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Nerd

• When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Comedy

• Women are clearly the major consumers in far more than just female categories. It doesn't matter whether it is purchases of cars, cosmetics, or even products for men, female consumption power is the leading consumption power in the world. Any company that overlooks the woman as the decision maker is making a huge mistake.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Since I was 9 years old, I've been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what - and what not - to do... you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Good
  • Children
  • Environment

• In the end, of course, Republicans ended slavery and permanently outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Slavery

• When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Great
  • Awesome

• I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.

  

  Andrew Luck
  • Up
  • Football

• 'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Mother
  • Father
  • English

• To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

  

  Plato
  • May
  • Silence

• I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Firsts
  • Innocent
  • Bystanders

• Mankind has tried the other two roads to peace - the road of political jealousy and the road of religious bigotry - and found them both equally misleading. Perhaps it will now try the third, the road of scientific truth, the only road on which the passenger is not deceived. Science does not, ostrich-like, bury its head amidst perils and difficulties. It tries to see everything exactly as everything is.

  

  Garrett P. Serviss
  • Trying
  • Religious
  • Mankind

• You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Power

• You know, radio was a really easy way to do the shows. You'd come in, do a read-through, there'd be a few rehearsals, then you'd come the night of the show and do it in front of the audience and then go home.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Audience
  • Shows
  • Radio

• And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.

  

  Yehuda Bauer
  • Bystanders