I came to the University of Chicago on the morning of January 2, 1932. I wasn't yet a graduate of high school for another few months. And that was about the low point of the Herbert Hoover/Andrew Mellon phase after October of 1929. That's quite a number of years to have inaction.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.