Impunity Quotes
93 quotes by 86 authors
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My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
— Junot Diaz
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
— Denis Diderot
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At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and…
— William Hague
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Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their…
— Meir Kahane
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal…
— Haile Selassie
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If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of…
— Peter Singer
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It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This…
— Khaled Hosseini
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The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after…
— Boris Pasternak
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Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The…
— Vaclav Havel
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He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.
— Terry Pratchett
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THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The…
— Brennan Manning
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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People do not read stupidities with impunity.
— Victor Hugo
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Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.
— Victor Hugo
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It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and…
— Kofi Annan
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We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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