Quotes About Inaction

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

Menschen sind nicht grausam. [...] Aber sie haben einen starken Selbsterhaltungstrieb und mischen sich, solange sie nicht direkt betroffen sind lieber nicht ein, wenn es Probleme gibt.

Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

Why on earth do we keep sending bozos like Michael Bennet back to Washington when they fail to get anything done?

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The Matrix where Westerners exist without thought. Considering their inaptitude and inaction, Western peoples might as well not exist.

Nonaction is, in fact, also action.

when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us

When women are stressed they move towards interaction and do what she called  "tend and befriend."  Males on the other hand, moved towards action (fight) or inaction (flight).

The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

lo molesta lo suficiente como para quejarse, pero no lo suficiente como para moverse.

Worry is a way to avoid change; when we worry, we don't do anything about the matter.

No one was doing anything," Davis said. "They were all standing around like deer caught in headlights." He saw Mathis leaning against the wall banging her head.

it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things.

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

We used to be a nation that celebrated people who got things done. Now we celebrate people who stop things getting done.

She was the kind of person who would see a pot overflowing on the stove and come and tell you about it, instead of picking it up and moving it off the burner. And then she would be proud of herself for acting quickly in a crisis.