• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    As a corollary:

    “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”

    • Edmund Burke

    This seems to have been bastardized by history into the following much more well known, but never actually directly stated:

    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”