Impunity Quotes
93 quotes by 86 authors
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were…
— David Brainerd
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
— Isabel Allende
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Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.
— Robert Browning
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I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.
— W.C. Fields
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The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with…
— Joseph Addison
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The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity
— Lewis Carroll
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It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or…
— Thomas Sowell
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The true liberty of the press is amply secured by permitting every man to publish his opinion; but it is due to the peace and…
— Thomas McKean
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Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.
— George Eliot
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One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
— Yoweri Museveni
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Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws…
— Ban Ki-moon
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What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to…
— Andrew Napolitano
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Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies…
— Jimmy Carter
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For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain sovereign…
— Jonathan Turley
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The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
— George Washington
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It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us…
— Jean-Paul Marat
Who Wrote These Impunity Quotes
86 authors contributed a total of 93 Impunity Quotes, led by these top contributors: