J. K. Rowling Quotes

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by 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.

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.

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

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

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

'Indifference to evil is equal to evil' because it strengthens people.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

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

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

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.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

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

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.

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

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

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.

The great enemy of morality is indifference.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people