The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men
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SIMON WIESENTHAL Money is neither good nor evil,but good men makes money good & evil men makes money evil.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants
WILLIAM PENN Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
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LEO TOLSTOY All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Thinking men cannot be ruled.
AYN RAND The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.
ROBERT BROWNING The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE When evil men plot, good men must plan.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
WILKIE COLLINS Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle.
IAN MACLAREN AKA REV. JOHN WATSON When evil men destroy, good men must build and bind.
ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.
LINCOLN STEFFENS Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
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AYN RAND All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing...
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WALTER BAGEHOT Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals.
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AYN RAND Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do not...
SOURCE UNKNOWN When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.
TIFFANY MADISON A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a m...
RICK PERLSTEIN Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our be...
RON BRACKIN Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idl...
WU-MEN Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When id...
WU-MEN Who Let The Dogs Out?
BAHA MEN It's a Small World
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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill
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WALTER LIPPMANN It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much ...
THUCYDIDES In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
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JULIUS CAESAR Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a pr...
ROBERT GREENE Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.
I understand that hotheaded men always ...
TOBA BETA I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
-Plato
PLATO A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
PERICLES Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
ELIE WIESEL In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,
but by the Lack of it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private se...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
PLATO The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am myself a man, and nothing relating to men is a matter of
indifference to me.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One can...
WOODROW WILSON There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One c...
WOODROW T. WILSON He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore...
KATIE KITAMURA The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
WITHROP ALDRICH If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever pra...
EPICURUS If evil is thriving in the North & good men decide to look Eastward & forsake the North,then the Nor...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
ULYSSES S. GRANT The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN To sit home, read one's favorite newspaper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is ea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Indifference is a well that never runs dry, and as good a word for evil as was ever composed.
FERNANDO A. TORRES Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ...
ELLIOT RODGER Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the v...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference ...
ELIE WIESEL The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange i...
BLAISE PASCAL In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be ...
DAVID HUME Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
MARTY RUBIN First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men sho...
BENJAMIN TUCKER Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of publi...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Good men don't hit women. Good men only hit the women who want to be hit.
TIFFANY REISZ This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men shou...
BENJAMIN TUCKER If I become like you, then how can I live with all the things I've done?” - X-10
DONNA GALANTI Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
JEAN GENET In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
THOMAS CARLYLE Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confine...
F.A. HAYEK The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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