The Triumph of Evil

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

I completely and whole-heartedly do not agree with this quote. In order for evil to triumph, I believe that bad people must do something, not that good people do nothing. If good people do something, evil could still triumph, but if bad people do nothing then evil would cease to exist. Clearly this Edmund Burke is not of equal intellect with me otherwise he surely would have made this observation himself and, thus, would not have said something so ignorant. I suppose he could have just overlooked this glaring fact, in which case I pardon him, but I'm not so sure I can pardon all of the people who like to quote Burke on this flawed conjecture.