Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature.

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.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

He that has done nothing has known nothing.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

What do you expect me to do about it?

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

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

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

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.