John Stuart Mill Quotes

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

Passivity is a tacit endorsement of evil we are too afraid to oppose actively.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.