Good Men Do Nothing Quotes

#1. Say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.

Bill Maher

#2. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

#3. J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.

J. Edgar Hoover

#4. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

John Philpot Curran

#6. So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Frank E. Peretti

#7. When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

J. Edgar Hoover

#8. Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

David Gemmell

#9. Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

Edmund Burke

#10. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke)

Zack Love

#11. There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

C.S. Lewis

#12. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.

Anna Quindlen

#13. 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

#14. Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

Harrison Ford

#15. There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Mark Twain

#16. 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

#17. It has been said that for evil men to accomplish their purpose it is only necessary that good men should do nothing.

Charles F. Aked

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

Simon Wiesenthal

#19. It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose.

Bruce Lee

#20. Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#21. Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

Stuart Weitzman

#22. Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps - good works.

Charles Lamb

#23. It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage ... On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.

Martin Luther

#24. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Dean Koontz

#25. That is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Patricia Briggs

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

Amanda Hocking

#27. It's said on my world that the only thing evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing." - Will Bradshaw

Arthur Daigle

#28. What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it
down.

Patrick Ness

#29. What can be feared when one is doing one's duty? I know the rage of my enemies. I know all their slanders; but when one only tries to do good to men and when one does not offend heaven, one can fear nothing, neither during life nor after death.

Voltaire

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

John Stuart Mill

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to stand by and do nothing.

Edward Burke

#34. All it took for evil to prevail was for good men to do nothing.

Nathan Robinson

#35. There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.

Saul Bass