Diego Luna Quotes

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.

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

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

No one is too young to do the right thing.

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.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'

When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.

It's such a simple thing, really. It's an awareness that the other people in the world are other people, and that you are one of them. That every time you have a chance to help somebody out, to do what's right instead of what you think you're supposed to do, you should do it.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

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

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.

The sight of preventable evil is painful ... he who preaches patience and reliance upon natural progress is thought callous.