Quotes About Impunity

To indulge one's instinctive and uncontrolled sense of justice and right, was not, he had found, permitted with impunity in an old civilization like ours. It was necessary to act under an acquired and cultivated sense of the same, if you wished to enjoy an average share of comfort and honour; and to let crude loving kindness take care of itself.

Impunity: it's always impunity that gets you dancing. What did I care about being ridiculous? I was on my way to earning a superior kind of impunity, and nobody knew it.

El patriarcado es un juez que nos juzga por nacer y nuestro castigo es la violencia que no ves. Es femicidio. Impunidad para mi asesino. Es la desaparición. Es la violación. Y la culpa no era mía, ni dónde estaba ni como vestía. El violador eras tú.

No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

A los quince años me alejé de la Iglesia para siempre, no por falta de fe en Dios —eso vino más tarde—, sino por el machismo inherente a toda organización religiosa. No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

los mismos hombres que en la vida cotidiana parecen mansos, al contar con impunidad y un buen pretexto suelen convertirse en fieras sanguinarias.

The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They're normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can turn into a monster, like the SS at Auschwitz," he told his sister.

pero cualquiera con fanatismo, poder e impunidad puede transformarse en una bestia

The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They're normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can turn into a monster

Si lo que quieres es andar armado, entre ser delincuente o ser policía, es mejor ser policía, porque tienes impunidad.

cannot belong to an institution that considers me a second-class member whose authorities, always male, enjoy complete impunity and enforce their rules with dogma.

That night, faced with the incontrovertible results, Pinochet, hardened by the arrogance of absolute power and cut off from reality by many years of complete impunity, proposed another coup to keep himself on the presidential throne indefinitely.

the policies that permitted it. "Without a mutual acknowledgment of mistakes made, and some form of accountability, another reversion to torture may be difficult to prevent," says political scientist Darius Rejali. "Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity."25 Impunity, in turn, rewards self-justification, not only in the perpetrators but also in the nation that exonerates them.

I have reason to believe vigilantes grow to like their work. That power, unchecked, will corrupt its own agenda. That violence, given impunity and approval, breeds more.

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 or 'disappearance' to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

All war aims for impunity.

Even wars, if they ever again arise to degrade us, should not be an excuse for an attack upon the Constitution. When one law of a nation is broken with impunity the rest are rendered ineffectual.

for any fight to be successful, impunity had to be reined in.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.

Then comes the Bush and Obama bailout, which reconstructed the powerful institutions—the perpetrators—and left everyone else floating. There was severe harm to people, who had houses taken away from them, jobs diminished, and so on. That's where we are now. It was done with impunity, and they're building up to the next one.

So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes – - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.

Indonesia can hold regular elections, but if the laws do not apply to the most powerful elements in society, then there is no rule of law and no genuine democracy. The country will never become a true democracy until it takes serious steps to end impunity.

People in uniform will tell you that no one life is more important than another. The lives of a white cop, a black fireman, a minister and a drug addict all have equal value. But the presumption is that if a person in uniform is killed with impunity, if such a killer is allowed to run free, then no regular citizen is safe. So for the sake of civil order, when a person in uniform is murdered, heads must get knocked, doors must be kicked in and every available cop is put to the task.