Babylonian Talmud Quotes

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don't do that, we really deserve the world we get.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network.

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.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Who are we to judge the people of Ecuador? We cannot condemn people when they take to the streets.

The protest is part of the American way of life.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.

Whether you have a hundred friends on Facebook or whether you're on TV or whatever, at every level, everybody has a platform. We all have a responsibility, given what's going on, to speak using that platform as much as we can, and to engage. Whether that's calling members of Congress, marching, getting involved locally, getting involved with Let America Vote, or if all you can get done during the day is you see the news and you want to make sure your hundred friends on Facebook know what you think about it, that is a really important part of this.

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

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

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.