Quotes About Inaction

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

For evil to survive, all that is necessary is for good people to stand by and do nothing.

BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others present who can render assistance

The more you understand politics, the more you realize that you mustn't move.

once a week and doesn't do much when he is there.

But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.

I'm not sure the word "sorry" does anything justice. It's such a loose word isn't it? I mean how can one puny word encompass all the stuff you did - But also the, all the things you didn't do? It's the inactions that keep people up at night. The actions, they're done. They're done. It's the inactions that never go away. They just hang there. They ROT. How is sorry supposed to stretch across all that?

Guilt loves the passive.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

I've been treating my life as this pit stop, just kind of regrouping before I move on. But it's been seven years, and I never moved on. I haven't done anything. I just...stopped.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Such people neither steal, nor murder, nor commit adultery, but do good according to their abilities. But . . . they must close their eyes and ears to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep their private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. In all that they do, what they fail to do will not let them rest. They will either be destroyed by this unrest, or they will become the most hypocritical of all Pharisees.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless.

But making the greater mistake of being paralyzed to inaction—for fear of making a mistake—for fear of stepping outside some false religious boundary, is something else. For that kind of inaction reveals what we really think of God, that he is a legalistic moral policeman waiting for us to slip up just so that he can make his arrest quota for the day.

A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

Turning a blind eye to evil, however, doesn't make it disappear. It allows it to grow. And those who allow evil to grow in order to protect their own convenience will be held accountable for the end results of the evil they facilitate.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact.

Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

To me, there is no doubt: inaction abroad emboldens actions on the home front. They are related.