Inaction

Here comes inaction and we don't know how to stop it.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the WHO is "deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction."

If we prevaricate and postpone this issue, the committee can continue to hide behind its inaction.

Inaction can be deadlier than action.

The consequences of inaction on these issues are not unknown, they are calculable.

Reagan's purposeful inaction during the AIDS crisis was a crime against humanity.

Nicholas II was responsible, through inaction if nothing else, for a wave of pogroms that killed countless Jews, none of whom are treated as saints or martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Without love, life can be cold and it can be cruel. Sometimes cruelty is deliberate — the action of bullies or bigots, or the inaction of those indifferent to another’s pain. But often, cruelty is simply born of life, a matter of fate or God’s will, beyond our mortal powers to comprehend. To suffer such faceless, seemingly random cruelty can harden the softest hearts, or shrink the sturdiest. It can make one mean, or bitter, or full of self-pity. Or, to paraphrase an old proverb, it can make you beg for a lighter burden.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is the inaction of good people.

I'm an optimist, and I think if you're a pessimist that's just an excuse for inaction.