The risks of inaction are far greater than the risks of action.
We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.
There’s people who do things and people who never do—who say they will someday, but they just don’t. I want to go on a quest. I’ve always wanted to go on a quest. And now that I have one, I’m not backing down from it. I’m not going home until it’s complete.
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.
He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?
