Maynard Jackson Quotes

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

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

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

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

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.

People never notice anything.

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

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch as he that goes over to the enemy.

I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away.

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

Apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice.

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

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

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

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.