John Mills

“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.””

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.””

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.””