Burke

"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." - Sir Edmund Burke, 1769.

This quote is very simple; it states that by any extent evil will flourish as long as there is no good to combat it. This is not just in the literal sense like batman and joker, the quote is more directed to the small evils in everyone and how if we never seek to banish it will always flourish. Let us look as human consumption as an example. Millions of years without human existence have resulted in a vast amount of resources. Now, we seem to be using them all up in a matter of centuries. This is an evil that we all participate in and all it needs to triumph is for no one to do anything. I think I’ve made my point pretty clear: in order to fix these problems like non-renewable resources, global warming etc, we have to SOMETHING, anything from picking up the tiniest garbage or making the biggest scientific breakthrough. If we do nothing it’ll only guarantee the success of these evils.