Corey Taylor Quotes

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

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 prevails when good people do nothing.

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

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

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

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

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

Evil prospers when good men 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.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

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.

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 flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

There are times when looking away is simply not enough.

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

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.

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls.

To be silent is to be complicit.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.