Quotes About Inaction

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

People don't help much.

Atrocitus: You believe fear to be the most powerful force in the universe? Fear is inaction. Fear is hiding away. Fear is cowering and begging. Rage is action. Rage is spilling blood. Sinestro: Rage is uncontrollable.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

At what point, I wondered, does silence become complicity?

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.

If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

Contentment - being happy while doing something - and complacency - being happy while doing nothing - are entirely different.

Hillary Clinton talks about health care. Why didn't she do something about it? She talks about taxes. Why didn't she do something about it? She doesn't do anything about anything other than talk.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

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.

No hope no action.