Tim Kaine Quotes

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

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

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.

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

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

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.

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.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

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

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

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