I like this quote from Dan Galvin's Thought For The Day mailing list:
The world is a dangerous place to live -
not because of the people who are evil
but because of the people who don't
do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
It is along the same lines as:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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4 comments:
This reminds me of a line from a movie:
"People say that evil prevails because good men fail to act... but they should say, 'Evil prevails.'"
We live in a fallen world, and while we do need to act, the evil remains. Just one more instance where I find myself longing for heaven ...where I too will no longer fall.
~Luke
I just love the Einstein quote. Thanks for sharing. I have been really enjoying your blog of late.
Along the same lines, I got this today (probably so did you, since I think I got on this word of the day thing when you posted about it some time back):
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. -Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)
Charmaine - thank you for the kind words.
Eleanor - I hadn't heard that quote before. I like it. It reminds me of:
"Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed."-Jan de Hartog, playwright and novelist (1914-2002)
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