Quotes About Inaction

I'm disappointed in everybody," she said after a long silence. "In who, exactly?" I was thinking she would say the Nazis. "The adults," she said. "All of them. How did they let the world get so out of control?

Quando un popolo rifiuta un progresso facile da raggiungere, quando un veicolo, spinto da dieci uomini, rimane inchiodato sul posto, quando un bambino si abbruttisce davanti al televisore per ore e ore, quando un'idea si cui è stata dimostrata l'inutilità continua a nuocere, allora si scopre, con stupore, lo spaventoso potere dell'immobile.

Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.

Climate change carries implications that stretch far beyond extreme weather, however. The effects on public health are far more alarming - and those have to be taken into account in order to calculate an accurate estimate of the costs of inaction.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

Those who are critical of Alliance are the same people who have done nothing for 30 years.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.

Some of us have been thinking and talking too long without doing anything. Poems are perfect; picketing, sometimes, is better.

All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Pour que le mal triomphe, il suffit que les gens bien ne fassent rien.

Although dynamism and rapid change are all around us, people are not very effective when facing extreme uncertainty—it tends to be paralyzing.

The worrying thing is that he was well aware of his slide, but didn't seem to want — or be able — to do anything to help it.

This is what happens when good people do nothing.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

So much of power is not what you do but what you do not do—the rash and foolish actions that you refrain from before they get you into trouble.

It is the paradox of truly perceiving that the more you do the less effective you are, and the more you hide the more you show.

A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

Many neo-liberal economists and political scientists argue that it is best to leave all the important decisions in the hands of the free market. They thereby give politicians the perfect excuse for inaction and ignorance, which are reinterpreted as profound wisdom. Politicians find it convenient to believe that the reason they don't understand the world is that they need not understand it.

Silence isn't neutrality; it is supporting the status quo.

I have a little different definition of evil than most people. When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that's evil. Evil doesn't always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good.

You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless.