Quotes About Inaction

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

To paraphrase Burke, all that is necessary for barbarism to triumph is for civilised men to do nothing: but in fact for the past few decades, civilised men have done worse than nothing—they have actively thrown in their lot with the barbarians.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

Benjamin Netanyahu seems to avoid any initiative.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening.

You just… you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.