Quotes about Inaction

You had decided to take the action, whatever it was." "Yes." "Yes. It involved perhaps a period of inaction." "Of comparative inaction—yes." "Of suspense, shall we say?" "Yes—of suspense, certainly." "Possibly

— Dorothy Sayers

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

— David Livingstone

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

— Edmund Burke