The greatest evil is not done by evil people, but by good people who stand by and do nothing.
Faust, German literature
The greatest evil is not done by evil people, but by good people who stand by and do nothing.
Faust, German literature
Attributed, but more famously associated with Edmund Burke. Unlikely a direct Goethe quote.
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