Witnesses Quotes

“People may implant their footprints in our walk of life and engrave their seal in our thinking; and their shadow may escort us throughout our whole life, remaining steady companions or permanent witnesses. They can, then, become points of reference that we can consult at any time. ("Not without you")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.”
― Carlos María Domínguez, The House of Paper

“Do you know how marriage was defined in ancient Greece? Noel said in a calmer tone. Its really simple. A virgin goes to mans house with the family gathered as witnesses. The virgin and the man share a fire, a meal, and a bed. If the girl wasn't a virgin in the morning, then the couple was considered married. That's it”
― Josephine Angelini

“Paul valued his life, but the doing of God's will was his highest priority.Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide feel the smae. Although, as Jesus foretold, they are 'objects of hatred by all the nations'.”
― Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah's Witnesses

“Both incest and the Holocaust have been subject to furious denial by perpetrators and other individuals and by highly organised groups such as the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and the Committee for Historical Review. Incest and the Holocaust are vulnerable to this kind of concerted denial because of their unfathomability, the unjustifiability, and the threat they pose to the politics of patriarchy and anti-Semitism respectively. Over and over, survivors of the Holocaust attest that they were warned of what was happening in Poland but could not believe it at the time, could not believe it later as it was happening to them, and still to this day cannot believe what they, at the same time, know to have occurred. For Holocaust deniers this is a felicitous twist, for their arguments denying the Holocaust and therefore the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state capitalize on the discrepancies of faded memory. In the case of incest, although post-traumatic stress disorder, amnesia, and dissociation represent some of the mind's strategies for comprehending the incomprehensible, incest deniers have taken advantage of inconsistencies to discredit survivor testimony.”
― Janet Walker, Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust

“It is a considerable point in all good legislation to determine exactly the credibility of witnesses and the proofs of a crime. Every reasonable man, everyone, that is, whose ideas have a certain interconnection and whose feelings accord with those of other men, may be a witness. The true measure of his credibility is nothing other than his interest in telling or not telling the truth; for this reason it is frivolous to insist that women are too weak [to be good witnesses], childish to insist that civil death in a condemned man has the same effects as a real death, and meaningless to insist on the infamy of the infamous, when they have no interest in lying.”
― Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

“That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.”
― Craig Rice, Trial by Fury

“One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Don’t be a witness. Be an activist.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“None of these apparent sightings interested Hawksmoor, since it was quite usual for members of the public to come forward with such accounts and to describe unreal figures who took on the adventitious shape already suggested by newspaper accounts. There were even occasions when a number of people would report sightings of the same person, as if a group of hallucinations might create their own object which then seemed to hover for a while in the streets of London. And Hawksmoor knew that if he held a reconstruction of the crime by the church, yet more people would come forward with their own versions of time and event; the actual killing then became blurred and even inconsequential, a flat field against which others painted their own fantasies of murderer and victim.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“The black officer checks Daddy while his partner glances around at all of the onlookers. There's quite a few of us now. Ms. Yvette and a couple of her clients stand in her doorway, towels around the clients' shoulders. A car has stopped in the street.

"Everyone, go about your own business," the white one says.

"No, sir," says Tim. "This is our business.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.”
― H.C. Nicholas

“Disciples of Jesus Christ have had a profound life-altering experience. They have encountered a supernatural personality, revealed in history as Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Messiah. And they have discovered the meaning and purpose of their lives in the subsequent revelation of his continuing presence to them. The experience demands a faithful, reliable witness.

What would public opinion say of a person who discovered the absolute cure for AIDS, but was unwilling to share that cure with a world that so desperately needs it? What if the antidote were kept hidden and made use of by only the discoverer and his family? We would consider it an moral outrage and he or she would be infamous. Why? We expect the cure to be shared, not only shared, but made available to all as soon as possible!”
― David C. Alves, We're the sons of God. . .So What?: Believe God About Who You Really Are!

“People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.”
― Steven Magee

“Where there's [a] will, there's a witness.”
― T.F. Hodge

“Speculative fiction writers, those who speak truth to power through their literature, must lie while telling the truth. Witnesses in the assassination of John F. Kennedy - for example - can back me up on this fact, if only they could.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“In most true tests of character, we and God are the only witnesses.”
― Jeremy Gove, Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity

“People will be seeking justice and say the law must take its course. Meanwhile when are called to testify. They commit perjury and will be like the law is not fair , it favors the perpetrator. Most cases are thrown out , because of the victims. They want the perpetrator behind bars so much, that they end up committing perjury.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“...life amounts, above all else, to the recruiting of witnesses.”
― Jonathan Lee, The Great Mistake

“Today, more than ever, it is necessary to compare what has been, what we are experiencing and what has been created by the huge market of illusion and manipulation. It is no longer enough to be prepared and well-informed, to search or find an alternative version of the official one: it has to be verified and observed with one’s own incisive spirit, in accordance with reality, listening and sifting through a plurality of voices, facts and situations.
This is the only way that we will be able to observe what is going on with a more objective eye, in relation to the contemporaneity we are living in.
Reality requires more witnesses in order to show it and change it.”
― Jacopo Brogi, 30 Years of United Photo Press Creative Artists

“There are always three sides to every story: yours, theirs and God's.”
― Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

“Never go into an area with an armed police officer that is devoid of witnesses!”
― Steven Magee

“Historic Lahaina town disaster: Day 1 - Authorities say 6 dead, witnesses say it is much higher. Day 2 - In the morning authorities say 36 dead, in the afternoon they say 53 dead. Day 3 - Authorities say 55 dead and it is expected to rise. Conclusion: The witnesses were the accurate source of information on day 1.”
― Steven Magee

“The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness.”
― Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives