in the form of Liberal Democracies says:
“If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.”
But the reality is that if you want to do something right,
you have quite a lot to fear.
Edward Burke's dictum is ever more often repeated:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
And lo! most not-bad people can do nothing.
And perhaps, as Karl says,
"All it takes for
evil to triumph is for people to exist."
3 comments:
Should it not be 'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for people to exist'?
'Not-bad' people - excellent. How many people are really good?
To see peole as 'evil' or 'good' is simplistic. Most people are neither.
Right, Jindra, good or bad is old-think Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Zoroastrian fundamentalism. Is there an alternative to simplistic dualism? You bet. Voltaire noted so wisely in his hilarious "Candide": "Il faut cultiver son propre jardin."
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