Bob Riley Quotes

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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

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

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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.

Evil prevails when good people do nothing.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

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 spares the bad injures the good.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

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.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

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.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

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

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.