Quotes About Inaction

Silence is the language of inertia.

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

Every time I scratch apathy, I find powerlessness beneath it. Humans care, they just don't know what to do about it.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

People froze you in place

ostrich policy.

Those who stand by and watch are complicit in what they could have stopped but chose not to.

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

One pretends nothing can be done; therefore, one can do nothing and feel perfectly justified. I think it is only another kind of dishonesty

What you see, and allow without a fight, is what you become yourself. What is the moral difference between the man who burns his neighbor to death, and the man who stands by and watches him do it?

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

el coste de equivocarse es inferior al coste de no hacer nada.

Curious people count. Not because there are a lot of them, but because they're the ones who talk to people who are in a stupor. They're the ones who lead the masses in the middle who are stuck. The masses in the middle have brainwashed themselves into thinking it's safe to do nothing, which the curious can't abide.

People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

En algunos momentos de la Historia, la pasividad es un crimen.

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate

O silêncio dos omissos é combustível para a vilania dos canalhas