Quotes related to Proverbs 24:11
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
— Edmund Burke
The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.
— Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
— Edmund Burke
I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
— Anonymous
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 Peretti
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
— Ronald Reagan
His platform includes a prolife agenda, for instance, which "values the sanctity of every human soul," and also "believes in the greatness of the American family." The word family, on his glossy-but-down-home webpage in its hues of red, white and blue, is a code for you, where you also means right, deserving, genuine and better than those others, you know, the ones who aren't you.
— Lydia Millet
If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody, and you're stuck with it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Theron thought he could solve problems by brushing them aside as though they didn't exist. But they do exist, they still exist, and unless responsible people do something about them, our land is in for fresh disaster, brother against brother, black against white.
— Madeleine L'Engle
This war is being fought between fanatics convinced that their ends sanctify all means, and everyone else - all those who hold that life is an end and not a means. It is a struggle between people who believe that justice, whatever that term may mean to them, is more important than life, and those who maintain that life takes precedence over other values.
— Amos Oz
It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.
— Pope Francis
The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.
— Ariel Sharon