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Quotes About Impunity

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.
~ Glen Duncan
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
~ Naomi Klein
Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.
~ Peter Maurer
We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.
~ Josefina Vázquez Mota
The reality is that 'Westworld' is designed so that guests can indulge with impunity their every fantasy - be it light or dark. So the hosts experience the extremes in human behavior, good and bad.
~ Lisa Joy
Nada funciona aquí. Ni la ley del talión ni la ley de Cristo. La primera, porque el estado ni la aplica ni la deja aplicar: ni raja ni presta el hacha como mi difunta mamá. La segunda porque es intrínsecamente perversa. Cristo es el gran introductor de la impunidad y el desorden en el mundo. Cuando tú vuelves a Colombia la otra mejilla, de un segundo trancazo te acaban de desprender la retina. Y una vez que no ves, te cascan de una puñalada en el corazón.
~ Fernando Vallejo
El idioma está tan indefenso como los animales. Todos los atropellan con impunidad. Y esas dos causas perdidas son las que he tomado como mías, por el gusto de perder. El éxito es para los granujas. Y si no, pásenles revista a los presidentuchos actuales de América a ver si encuentran entre ellos a un señor.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Entonces descubrí lo que no sabía, que estaba infinitamente cansado, que me importaba un carajo el honor, que me daba lo mismo la impunidad que el castigo, y que la venganza era demasiada carga para mis años.
~ Fernando Vallejo
The risk was greater, far greater, when you let your target or enemies work with impunity. Remove
~ Harlan Coben
The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.
~ Steve Aylett
They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
~ Charles Farrar Browne
en México «hay un pacto de impunidad tácito entre los políticos». Los políticos no investigan a otros políticos;
~ Francisco Goldman
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.
~ Yoweri Museveni
Crowd control.' 'Excuse me?' 'That's all civilization is, T'riss. A means by which we manage the proliferation of our kind. It increases in complexity the more of us there are. Laws keep us muzzled and punishment delivers the necessary message when those laws are broken. Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity.
~ Steven Erikson
The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.
~ Edward Gibbon
I had said impunity of APSPA should be removed in order to win the hearts of the people of Kashmir.
~ Prashant Bhushan
In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.
~ George Takei
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
~ Frank Darabont
Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity.
~ Steven Erikson
I find it curious that she hasn't been excommunicated. Are her small acts of rebellion a convenient outlet for Peters, a type of performance that satisfies the colonists' need to assert themselves, and that allows Peters to act with impunity on a larger scale?
~ Miriam Toews
Any system that permits its children to be killed with impunity would seem to be a system in dire crisis. Something at the very core of our system—and society—is irrevocably broken and must be fixed.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.
~ Carol Tavris