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The Only Thing Necessary for Evil to Triumph Is…
A FREE-MAN’s TAKE with Paul Rosenberg | January 30, 2015
The Only Thing Necessary for Evil to Triumph Is…
I’m betting that most of my readers can complete this phrase. The problem is, it isn’t quite true. Edmund Burke, its supposed source, was a good man, but that doesn’t make the saying true.
Here’s the complete passage, in the form most of us know:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Yes, there is a time when good men and women must stand up for what’s right, even when it involves risk, but that moment comes only after evil has already been well established and is powerfully on the move.
Fighting evil may be an essential thing, but it isn’t the first problem—it matters only after thousands or millions of mistakes have already been made. And if those first mistakes had not been made, great fights against evil wouldn’t be necessary.
Where Evil Comes From
Let’s begin with a crucial point: Evil is inherently weak.
Here’s why that’s true:
Evil does not produce. It must take advantage of healthy and effective life (AKA good men and women) if it’s to succeed. Evil, by its nature, is wasteful and destructive: It breaks and kills and disrupts, but it does not produce and invent. Evil requires the production of the good in order to do its deeds.
How much territory could Caesar have conquered on his own?
How many people could Joe Stalin have killed with no one to take his orders?
How many people could Mao have starved to death without obedient middlemen?
With duteous followers, however, evil rulers killed some 260 million people in the 20th century.
The truth is that evil survives by tricking the good into doing its will. Without thousands of basically decent people confused enough to obey, evil would fail quickly.
The great tragedy of our era is the extent to which evil has been successful in convincing people to service it. Good people having yielded their wills arm evil, accommodate evil, and acquiesce to its actions.
Hannah Arendt summarized it this way:
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
People end up supporting evil because they don’t want to make up their minds at all. They want to avoid criticism and vulnerability, so they hold to the middle of the pack and avoid all risk.
These people wouldn’t initiate murders by themselves, but in the name of duty, loyalty, unity, and/or the greater good, they cooperate with evil and give it their strength. But each plays a small part—none of them stretches so far that they’d have to contemplate the final effects of their actions.
In the 20th century, however, the actions of such people led directly to the murders of 260 million people. And they did this precisely by avoiding decisions… by merely obeying.
Sins of Obedience
People think of murder, lying, and robbery as sins, but none of those has nearly the death toll of obedience.
Basically decent men and women obey agents of evil for very mundane reasons. The process often goes like this:
Being confused and intimidated, they look for the center of the pack.
They try not to make waves.
They learn that they can avoid making waves best if they adopt the perspectives of their overlords. So they run the overlords’ slogans through their minds as a default program.
In the end, these people don’t make up their minds. Rather, they take on the minds of their overlords and do their will.
And so, the vast majority of evil done on Earth traces back to minds and wills that have been abandoned to fear and laid on the Altar of Obedience.
So…
This is what the famous quote should say:
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to obey.
We should be painting that saying on our walls.
A Free-Man’s Take is written by adventure capitalist, author, and freedom advocate Paul Rosenberg. You can get much more from Paul in his unique monthly newsletter, Free-Man’s Perspective.
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No one knows what he can do till he tries. -Publilius Syrus Heroism, the caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more. -George F. Kennan If you are going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of readiness to die. -G. K. Chesterton The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you. -Elmer Davis A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. -Ralph Waldo Emerson A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time; and a courageous person afterward. -Jean Paul Richter Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. Courage is not the absence of fear. Fear can be useful to warn us of impending danger. Courage is the willingness to move forward in spite of being afraid. -N. Patricia Briggs O'Dell Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin Cowards die many times. He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day. One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson From caring comes courage. -Lao Tse There are no maps to where no one has gone before. -Kodak ad Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow. -Dorothy Thompson Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -Eddie Rickenbacker Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us... -Rush Fortune sides with him who dares. -Virgil It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. -Virgil It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -Seneca Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. -Ambrose Redmoon You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps. -David Lloyd George Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -Publilius Syrus A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. -John A. Shedd Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -Mark Twain Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic. -Jean Sibelius Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. He who tries can fail. But he who doesn't try, already has. You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first. Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage.
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