Impunity Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impunity Sometimes Wit
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless… — Philip Dormer Stanhope Copy Share Image
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For states' rights advocates, the Constitution is like a contract that is openly violated by one party with impunity. On paper, the states remain… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it,… — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good.… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
