Author: Edmund Burke

Cited by

• Steve Cole (1)
  • IN: Heads You Die (2016) Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Cowardice will suffer for its triumph. Courage will suffer for its overthrow.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Toby Forward (1)
  • IN: Starborn (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• William Bernhardt (1)
  • IN: Silent Justice (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A good person once said, that where mystery begins, religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
    FROM: A Vindication of Natural Society, (1756), Essay, Ireland
• David Morrell (1)
  • IN: The Protector (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
    FROM: On the Sublime and Beautiful, (1757), Book, Ireland
• Martin Edwards (1)
  • IN: Yesterday's papers (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Where mystery begins, justice ends.
    FROM: A Vindication of Natural Society, (1756), Essay, Ireland
• Brad Thor (1)
  • IN: Foreign Agent (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
    FROM: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, (1770), Book, UK
• Anwar Pasha (1)
  • IN: Rifles Bread Women (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
    FROM: On Conciliation with America, (1775), Speech, Ireland
• Randy Wayne White (1)
  • IN: Hunter's Moon (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Randy White (1)
  • IN: Hunter's Moon (2007) Mystery, American
    EPIGRAPH: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Tom Clancy (1)
  • IN: Patriot Games (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When bad men combine, the good must associate, else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
    FROM: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, (1770), Essay, Ireland
• Herman Melville (2)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Spain—a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
• Conn Iggulden (1)
  • IN: Wars of the Roses Trinity (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
    FROM: Letter to Charles Fox, 8 Oct. 1777 (Corr., II, 387.), (1777), Letter, UK
• Alex Kava (1)
  • IN: A Necessary Evil (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is necessary only for the good to do nothing for evil to triumph.
    FROM: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, (1770), NULL, Ireland
• Elizabeth Thomas (1)
  • IN: Monte Video: or, The officer's wife and her sister: a novel (1809) Book, British
    EPIGRAPH: I live in an inverted order; they who ought to have succeeded me, are gone before me. I am alone. I am stripped of all my honours; I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.
    FROM: A Letter to a Noble Lord, (1796), Book, NULL