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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
— John Stuart Mill
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Often shortened to 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing' and misattributed to Edmund Burke; this wording is from Mill's 1867 St Andrews address.
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