Consequences of Inaction Quotes

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

An officer in Howe's army told me they executed ONLY two men in the last year. Their discipline prevents crimes. OUR WANT of it creates them. We have had 20 executions in the last year, & our army is not a bit the better for them. If Howe should lie still, desertions, sickness, accidental deaths & executions would waste our whole army in one year.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.

to not act is a choice too

He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.

People in the tech community may not like politics because it seems less interesting or less pure than what they're doing. But you see the result of not caring about politics. This is no longer an abstract problem.

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

I learned early in my career that if you see something that is not to standard or not within the law, and you ignore it, you've set a new standard, and it's lower.

The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.

You are free, but you have to choose. An open oven bakes no bread

The man who straddles the fence too long usually develops a sore crotch.

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don't do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.