On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 21:40:24 -0600 "Patrick Goodman"
 writes:
> You seem like the guy to come to for these things.
> 
> I'm fixing to write a story for a superhero gaming anthology (on 
> spec, so
> wish me luck).  I'd like to open it with a quote; the one I have in 
> mind is
> attributed to Edmund Burke, and I've found six or seven different
> permutations of it on the net so far.  Alarmingly, I can't find it 
> in any of
> my quote books.  I'm hoping you can help me find the correct 
> wording.
> 
> Approximately, it goes thus:  "All that is required for evil to 
> triumph is
> for good men to do nothing."

Here is how I have it in my files.


The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
nothing. --Edmund Burke


Now, my files are subject to their sources.
And I'm thinking Dietrich Bonhoeffer probably said something similar (but
I don't have it in my quothings file, and the quote books are still in a
box (or boxes) somewhere).
 
> Thanks in advance for your aid, or that of anyone else who wants to 
> join the
> party.

de nada

hope to have been helpful
-B



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