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Subject: Quotations
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: dkornreich1-ga
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Posted: 13 Dec 2005 21:54 PST
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What are some good quotes to the extent that those who do not actively
fight oppression are just as guilty as the oppressors?
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Subject: Re: Quotations
Answered By: tutuzdad-ga on 14 Dec 2005 08:48 PST
 
Dear dkornreich1-ga;

Thank you for allowing me to answer your interesting question. Here
are some fascinating thoughts about guilt by virtue of inaction,
indifference and apathy:

?If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him
not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth
him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.?
-- Holy Bible - 2 John 1:10-11  
BLUE LETTER BIBLE
http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/2Jo/2Jo001.html#10

?Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we
who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.?
-- Omar N. Bradley
BRAINY QUOTE
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/omarnbrad142594.html

?The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.? 
-- Bess Myerson
BRAINY QUOTE
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/bessmyerso142688.html


?Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not
committed. [Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non
pervererint.]
-- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

?Those who guilt stains it equals. [Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]? 
-- Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

?He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. [Lat., Fatetur facinus
is qui judicum fugit.]?
-- Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

?One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.?
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

?Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.? 
-- Frederic Chopin

?There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.? 
-- Juan Montalvo

?Who would regard all things complacently must wick at a great many.?
-- Dutch Proverb

?If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.? 
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

?Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.? 
-- George Steiner

?The accomplice is as bad as the thief.?
-- Portuguese Proverb

?He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes
himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.?
-- Charles Peguy

WORLD OF QUOTES
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Guilt/1/

?"The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing,
and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply
cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live."
-- Leo F. Buscaglia
THINKEXIST.COM
http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/the_person_who_risks_nothing-does_nothing-has/148405.html

?One does evil enough when one does nothing good.?
-- German Proverb
QUOTE GARDEN
http://www.quotegarden.com/integrity.html

?The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but
because of those who look on and do nothing.?
-- Albert Einstein

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

?Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no
remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.?
-- Helen Keller

?He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.?
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

?The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its
pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.?
-- William Lord Garrison

EVIL QUOTES
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_evil.html
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_apathy.html


?"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of
great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
-- Dante

"The biggest sin is sitting on your ass."
-- Florynce R. Kenndy

"What you don't do can be a destructive force"
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

LEARNING TO GIVE
http://www.learningtogive.org/search/quotes/Display_Quotes.asp?subject_id=35&search_type=subject


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Subject: Re: Quotations
From: hummiz-ga on 13 Dec 2005 23:04 PST
 
I know that on the Hebrew Halacha,there's a saying goes like that :
"silence as admition".
which means,if someone blaim you on something and you don't say a word
to him back,that means you agree with the blaim :)
Subject: Re: Quotations
From: myoarin-ga on 14 Dec 2005 07:14 PST
 
Hmm, that is interesting, Hummiz, especially since Anglo common law
says the opposite:  silence to an accusation is no admission of guilt.
 Guilt must be proven.  (Thomas More and Edward VIII, for example, but
this is no criticism of your comment).
On the other hand, in a passage from the New Testament that could be
seen as agreeing with the Halacha, Jesus is quoted as saying:  "If you
are not for me, you are against me" (Matthew 12:30).

I hope we see some good quotations here, Kant maybe.
Myoarin
Subject: Re: Quotations
From: pafalafa-ga on 14 Dec 2005 07:17 PST
 
There's the '60s mantra:  If you're not part of the solution, you're
part of the problem.
Subject: Re: Quotations
From: pafalafa-ga on 14 Dec 2005 07:19 PST
 
And this one, too:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...


Perhaps the most well-known.

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