The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Evil triumphs not through wrongdoers but through the passivity of bystanders.
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Fred Somebody, Thomas Everybody, Pete Anybody, and Joe Nobody were neighbors, but they were not like you and me. They we…
— Unknown
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
— German Proverb
“The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs,” said Plato, “is to be ruled by evil men.”
— Plato
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Kitty Genovese was the young woman who was murdered in a New York residential section while at least thirty-eight neighb…
— Louis Torres
It is necessary only for the good of man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
— Edmund Burke
