Quotes About Inaction

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.

responsibility! americans love to say-it is, what it is. I, ras cardo say:- responsibility is foresight, not hindsight. It is looking far beyond the- here and now of the consequences which will most surely flow from our actions or in-actions. We must show young people how to-look for it, embrace it, and use it by being it. This is what we should mean when we say-it is, what it is. It is something , much better when its shared.

Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard.

Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done.

I would find myself staring resentfully at people on buses merely going home at the end of their day. How could they sit there so idly and unknowingly, their indifferent profiles on display, when the world was about to be changed?

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless. Targassat of Surang.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

The man who acts the least, upbraids the most.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

The irresolute man flecks from one egg to another, so hatches nothing.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.