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Inaction Quotes

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.

– Mary Trump

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

Facebook’s inaction in taking down Trump’s post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here. I absolutely disagree with it…Silence is complicity.

– Lauren Tan

Software engineer with Facebook.

If you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time, then let me remind you that our political leaders have wasted decades through denial and inaction.

– Greta Thunberg

Many of you appear concerned that we are wasting valuable lesson time, but I assure you we will go back to school the moment you start listening to science and give us a future.

– Greta Thunberg

After 1.6 million students skipped school to protest against climate inaction by governments.

Our actions – and inaction – touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.

– Jacqueline Novogratz

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.

– John Stuart Mill

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

– Bill Gates

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

– Chuck Schumer

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we’re fighting a war on terror.

– Bill Kristol

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.

– Anthony Albanese

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

– David Brock

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

– Douglas Horton

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

– Charles J. Givens

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

– Elliott Abrams

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

– Dave Freudenthal

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren’t actually angry at the president about inaction.

– Nicholas D. Kristof

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

– Meister Eckhart

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

– Jef Raskin

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

– Jerry Brown

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

– Leonardo da Vinci

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

– Robert Zoellick

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

– Pete Gallego

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

– Winston Churchill

It was lights, camera, inaction.

– Terry Gilliam

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

– Will Rogers

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

– Tony Blair