Alan Wilson Quotes

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

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.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.'

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Don’t tell me that it is tough. It is at least as tough as you think it is. But what is the alternative? It is to do nothing?

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

I've always believed that talking about something is not the same as doing something about it.

The worst thing you can do is sit there and do nothing, right?

When certain things reach a tipping point, and you know people's lives are in danger, you have to decide that it's time to speak up, and you have to say something loud and clear.