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Not so much made up as redrafted:
''“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was an 18th-Century philosopher, statesman and writer who was an MP for the Whig Party for over 20 years. Among his most regularly referenced quotations is this one.
It sounds impressive, but some have argued that it's a bit dubious in its meaning. As David Bromwich - author of The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke - said to Reuters: “The thing that strikes you about this saying… is how little sense it makes: the silence of good men isn’t the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil. The persons advancing the evil… must be strong and determined; and the lukewarm must be either cowed into submission or willing to go along.”
What Burke did say, in 1770, was, “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”'
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The idea that the only that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing makes full sense to me and is very powerful:
There will always be evil in this world and people determined to do evil things. If nobody opposes that evil then it will triumph. Therefore it is the fundamental responsibility of good people to do what they can to stop evil.
It fits very well with another of my favourite quotes from Bonhoeffer - First they came. |  |
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