Erin Gruwell Quotes

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

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

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 flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

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

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

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.

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.

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

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

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

A man who knows a thing, who is aware of a given danger, and sees the possibility of a remedy with his own eyes, has the duty and obligation, by God, not to work 'silently,' but to stand up before the whole public against the evil and for its cure.