Ben Goldacre Quotes

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

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

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.