That Good Men Do Nothing Quotes

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

Edmund Burke

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

Zack Love

#3. 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

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

Charles Lamb

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#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 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

#13. 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

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

Patricia Briggs

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

Amanda Hocking

#16. 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

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

John Stuart Mill

#18. 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

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

Bill Maher

#20. Our errors and our controversies, in the sphere of morality, arise sometimes from looking on men as though they could be altogether bad, or altogether good.

Luc De Clapiers

#21. I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Lord Chesterfield

#22. 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

#23. There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.

Ovid

#24. People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones' good fortune ... and at bottom it is always man himself that stands in his own way.

Soren Kierkegaard

#25. Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of ...

Benjamin Franklin