Quotes About Inaction

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Contemplation was like sitting on a committee that seldom made recommendations and was ignored when it did, a committee that lacked even the authority to disband.

If a good man does nothing when confronted with a moral wrong, what is lost?

The Gender Defender is someone who actively, or by knowing inaction, defends the status quo of the existing gender system, and thus perpetuates the violence of male privilege and all its social extensions. The gender defender, or gender terrorist, is someone for whom gender forms a cornerstone of their view of the world. Shake gender up for one of these folks, and you're in trouble.

Sometimes I wish I could look away, like other people seem to be able to do. Not feel it's my job to put things right.

I thought sooner or later someone would start saying it had gone too far, but it just kept on, and no one said anything. I

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Better to suffer evil than stand by and do nothing.

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all. Ross Perot

if you go through life worrying about all the bad things that can happen, you soon convince yourself that it's best to do nothing at all.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

When you see something wrong and fail to do anything about it, even in the smallest effort, you accept the wrong.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

Nothing will come of nothing.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.