Impunity Quotes

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Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is… — Eldridge Cleaver
The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King… — Gerry Spence
Nobody does good to men with impunity. — Auguste Rodin
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as… — Eduardo Galeano
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep… — Lee Kuan Yew
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. — Naomi Klein
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson
Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder… — Peter Benenson
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. — Ralph Chaplin
Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has… — Naomi Klein
What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of… — Linda Foley
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end… — George Washington
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be… — Albert Camus
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist… — Tom Robbins
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is… — Max Weber
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious,… — William Duncan Silkworth
There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that… — Steven T. Katz
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people… — Nicholas D. Kristof
In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a… — Sandy Berger

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