Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — "The greatest evil is not done by evil people, but by good people who stand by an…"
The greatest evil is not done by evil people, but by good people who stand by and do nothing.
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Attributed, but more famously associated with Edmund Burke. Unlikely a direct Goethe quote.
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