for evil to prevail

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke 


I stumbled on this quote again today - and boy does it hit home.  I do think that there's an intermediate step... that of chaos.  In too many cases, you do nothing,  and there's chaos.  The chaos is what then masks and fosters the evil.  This - seems to hide from people the fact that their do nothing attitude contributes.