Quotes About Inaction

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in neither case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. The latter case, it is true, requires a much more cautious exercise of compulsion than the former. To make any one answerable for doing evil to others, is the rule; to make him answerable for not preventing evil, is, comparatively speaking, the exception.

Action requires courage," Thomas said. "Inaction only requires excuses.

To sin in silence while others doth protest makes cowards out of men.

There's an observation attributed to Aristotle, which goes to show how long the complainers have been a bother: If you don't want to be criticized, then do nothing, say nothing, be nothing, make nothing.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Por qué habríamos de hacer algo? ¿Por qué? Creo que toda acción es fundamentalmente inútil y que el hombre ha frustrado su destino, que era el de no hacer nada. Creo que el único momento justo en la historia es el periodo antiguo de la India, en el que se hacía una vida contemplativa, en el que se contentaban con mirar las cosas sin ocuparse nunca de ellas.

El hastío es un vértigo, pero un vértigo tranquilo, monótono; es la revelación de la insignificancia universal, es la certidumbre llevada hasta el estupor o hasta la suprema clarividencia de que no se puede, de que no se debe hacer nada en este mundo ni en el otro, que no existe ningún mundo que pueda convenirnos y satisfacernos.

El paraíso no era un lugar soportable, de lo contrario, el primero hombre se habría adaptado a él; este mundo tampoco lo es, ya que en él se añora el paraíso o se da otro por seguro. ¿Qué hacer? ¿A dónde ir? No hagamos nada, no vayamos a ningún lado, así sin más.

What is known as "wisdom" is ultimately only a perpetual "thinking it over," i.e., non-action as first impulse.

A man who sees too far, who is contemporary with the whole future, can no longer act or even move. . . .

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Probably in most cases the greatest wisdom of a constitutional king would show itself in well-considered inaction.

And I was alone, had been for a while, and might be for a while, but it no longer frightened me the way it had. I was discovering something terrifyingly simple: there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was discovering this in the way, I suppose, that everybody does, but having tried, endlessly, to do something about it.

Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,

When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn't meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

The spirit of procrastination is within all men. We

Writing about Gregor von Rezzori's classic Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, Deborah Eisenberg pointed out the great harm that can be done by a handful of evil people, as long as they have the "passive assistance of many, many other people who glance out of the windows of their secure homes and see a cloudless sky." She goes on to list the sins of such passive people: "carelessness, poor logic, casual snobbery—either social or intellectual—inattentiveness.

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In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.