John Stuart Mill Quotes

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

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.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for 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.

A time comes when silence is betrayal.

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

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

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

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

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

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

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

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

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.

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.

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

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.