Quotes About Inaction

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Ci sono quattro tipi di persone: quelli che stanno zitti e non fanno niente, quelli che parlano dello star zitti e non far niente, quelli che fanno qualcosa, e quelli che parlano del far qualcosa.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

We lose our souls not only by the evil we do but also by the good we leave undone.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Inaction is also karma.

ÄŒasto sa dopúÅ¡Å¥a bezprávia aj ten, kto ni? nerobí, nielen ten, kto nie?o robí.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it's that you're not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it? —But there are insuperable obstacles. Then it's not a problem. The cause of your inaction lies outside you.

But unfortunately, decent people are usually slow to act and ignore dangers until a crisis erupts. They are sluggish and willing to abide with peace without honor, but their own inaction causes them to lose both.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.