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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
1) The quotes are above the person suggested to have said it;
2) I picked some random apathy quotes from the interwebs; and
3) From the Edmund Burke Wikipedia page:
False quotations
"When good men do nothing"
The statement that "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" is often attributed to Burke despite the debated origin of this quote.[178][179]
In 1770, it is known that Burke wrote in "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents":
[W]hen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.[180][181]
In 1867, John Stuart Mill made a similar statement in an inaugural address delivered before the University of St. Andrews:
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.[182]
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Yeah I know it's a contested quote although Burke seems to be the one who mostly gets credit for it. Either way I wasn't serious about it. However I don't know what Stuart Mills has to do with it, Burke was dead before Mills was even born.