Quotes About Inaction

After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

Don't go anywhere, don't do anything, don't call anyone. I guessed talking with the guy would amount to doing something, which would contravene the don't do anything part of the command. But then, breathing was doing something, technically. So was metabolizing. My hair was growing, my beard was growing, all twenty of my nails were growing, I was losing weight. It was impossible not to do anything. So I decided that component of the order was purely rhetorical.

He said all that needs to happen for evil to prevail is that good men do nothing.

He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him alone, and he did not deserve it either, because he was letting it waste. It was getting away from him and he made no effort to stop it. He did not know how.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. So we must stretch ourselves to the very limits of human possibility. Anything less is a sin against both God and man.

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

Too many players are so afraid to do anything that they seldom venture to do anything.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Dunia ini berbahaya untuk dijadikan tempat tinggal. Bukan karena orang yang berbuat jahat, melainkan karena orang yang duduk dan membiarkannya terjadi

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.

El mundo no está amenazado por las malas personas sino por aquellos que permiten la maldad

La vida es muy peligrosa. No por las personas que hacen el mal, sino por las que se sientan a ver lo que pasa

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.

Un conto è non far niente. Un conto è non poter far niente-

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni warmed to the theme. "And you could have yet another list," he said. "Things that other people should do, but don't seem to be doing." Mma Ramotswe thought for a while. "That could be a very long list," she said. "There are many people who do not do what they should be doing.