For Evil To Triumph Quotes

#1. All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

Amanda Hocking

#2. Ll that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing. I supposed old Edmund Burke had meant to include women in that. And if he hadn't, well, screw him.

Rachel Caine

#3. All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Theodore Dalrymple

#4. 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.

Haile Selassie

#5. All that's required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. I saw that evil was impotent - that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real - and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

Ayn Rand

#7. What we're talking about here is goodness, mercy, and justice- and those are not fantasies. They'll exist whether you believe in them or not. However, if you believe, then you'll put your beliefs in action; and if you act you will help ensure that evil doesn't triumph. But only if you act.

Dean Koontz

#8. Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

Rohinton Mistry

#9. To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

Miroslav Volf

#10. The victim is always morally superior to the master; that is the victim's ambivalent triumph. That is why there have been so few notoriously wicked women in comparison to the number of notoriously wicked men; our victim status ensures that we rarely have the opportunity.

Angela Carter

#11. It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

Bob Thaves

#12. Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.

Swami Paramananda

#13. The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act.

Dean Koontz

#14. Love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

Thomas Merton

#15. Discard that old notion, that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". Good people can't do nothing.

Jenna Brooks

#16. In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#17. In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Dean Koontz

#19. But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better.

Susan Cooper

#20. No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

John Connolly

#21. Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

Barbara Cartland

#22. As long as someone remains standing with a noble heart there will always be a way for good to triumph over evil.

Chris Colfer