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All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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...Evil always rushes in to fill the void created by the absence of good. The only thing that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing, and unfortunately, that is what too many good people choose to do...

The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.

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It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

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The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician

For good people to do evil doesn’t require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of its key elements: belief without evidence—in other words, faith. And that kind of faith is seen not just in religion, but in any authoritarian ideology that puts dogma above truth and frowns on dissent.

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