Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are

— Constancev Chuks Friday

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

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

— Thomm Quackenbush

As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance... Wallow in it... Write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilizing the seeds which [Heavenly Father] plants in a human soul... Do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm [the cause of evil] if [it is kept] out of his will... The more often he feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

— C.S. Lewis

But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.

— Sara Baume

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

— Jim Butcher

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly. And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that--events beyond the will of the gods--and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.

— Steven Erikson

Count Jayapura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of remark that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement. Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Jayapura’s version of political theory.

— Yukio Mishima

Doing nothing was as honorable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

— Johnny Rich