Quotes About Inaction

Hurry up and do nothing, that was the army's way of doing things.

Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.

If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.

Politicians can talk and talk and talk until they're silly, and they do nothing.

Rationalization is Resistance's right-hand man. Its job is to keep us from feeling the shame we would feel if we truly faced what cowards we are for not doing our work.

I can procrastinate thinking about my procrastination problem. I can procrastinate dealing with my problem of procrastinating thinking about my procrastination problem.

pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.

By doing nothing, Sloan's so-called friends had sealed her fate as surely as Fritz had with his gun. In hindsight, did any of them recognize the price she had paid for their passivity? Their failure to act was all the more damning for the ease with which they rationalized their behavior afterward.

Their action and inaction are matters of strategy, and they cannot be pleased or angered.

The Three P's": Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Paralysis.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing "we" can do—but who is that "we"?—and nothing "they" can do either—and who are "they"?—then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.

Wherever people feel safe—this was her bitter, self-accusing point—they will be indifferent.

but one of the sayings he was fond of was Burke's "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

As Mark Twain famously quipped, "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

He wants to apologize but does not know for what. His life has been devoted to apologetics. It is his profession. He is concerned with both justification and remorse. He has always acted rightly, but nothing has ever come of it.

Carla always says, "I don't like risks." In Greg's opinion, there's no way to avoid them. It's just a matter of whether you choose dangerous action or dangerous inaction.

Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens.

Todo lo necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada

Una de las primeras cosas que aprendí como médico es que hay muchas más formas de dañar a las personas que de ayudarlas. Por triste y cínico que suene, hay menos posibilidades de equivocarse no haciendo nada.

Lo único necesario para el triunfo del mal es que los hombres buenos no hagan nada».

Nowadays, our leaders prefer to search for the causes of crime and poverty in the actions or inaction of those at the very bottom of society. The obscene transfers of wealth over the past forty years from that bottom to a privileged few at the top--and from much of the Third World to financial elites in the West--are all excused as the natural evolution of the Market, when, in fact, they are products of unparalleled greed by those who shape and direct that Market.