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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.
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.
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.
Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.
If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and silent voice, abet those who seek to destroy it.
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on border security will continue to plague our nation for years to come.
Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his siblings, destroyed my father. I can't let him destroy my country.
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.
We are not a nation of strikes and inaction. We will not be preached at by militant unionists with a crap whippet and a chip on each shoulder.
The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.
Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.
The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).
Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction.
Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate.
In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.
Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.
Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
