Inaction Quotes

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”

“A wrong-doer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.”

“We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we do not do.”

“The longer we wait, the more difficult and expensive it will be to address climate change.”

“Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing.”

“All quiet on the Potomac.”

“Why can't you let it alone?”

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”

“We are responsible for the evil we don't prevent.”

“The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.”

“Silence is not always golden. Sometimes it is yellow.”

“There is no problem that an absence of a solution will not end up solving.”

“The man who is not actively kind is cruel.”

“What is the sorriest thing that enters Hell? None of the sins, but this and that fair deed which a man might have done and did not do.”

“Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.”

“To do nothing is in every man's power.”

“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.”

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”