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All war aims for impunity. -- Michael Ignatieff
Nobody does good to men with impunity. -- Auguste Rodin
They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. -- Charles Farrar Browne
Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. -- John le Carre
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. -- Isabel Allende
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. -- Ralph Chaplin
I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. -- John le Carre
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity. -- Andrew Stanton
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity. -- Alvaro Uribe
In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. -- Junot Diaz
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. -- Denis Diderot
When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity. -- Simon Wiesenthal
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg. -- Frank Darabont
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
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 with impunity. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
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 human rights with impunity. -- William Hague
I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes. -- Kofi Annan
The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy. -- Jonathan Kozol
A 'gossip partner' is someone you love and trust, with whom you may go through the day's events with impunity, and with whom you may air your feelings, without them falling asleep. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
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 taboo seems to have been broken with impunity. -- Steven T. Katz
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 another tribe, you could be killed with impunity. -- Peter Singer
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 territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity. -- Meir Kahane
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. -- Peter Benenson
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 Vazquez Mota
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 to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment. -- Haile Selassie
No man provokes me with impunity. -- Ovid
No one provokes me with impunity. -- Mary, Queen of Scots
People do not read stupidities with impunity. -- Victor Hugo
Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity. -- Isabel Allende
Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity. -- Victor Hugo
Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose. -- Robert Browning
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas! -- Juan Manuel Santos
Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity. -- Jane Mayer
I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me. -- W. C. Fields
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity -- Thomas Jefferson
Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity? -- Jean Racine
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. -- Glen Duncan
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong. -- Josefina Vazquez Mota
One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity. -- Yoweri Museveni
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. -- Ammianus Marcellinus
The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity. -- Steve Aylett
Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. -- Henry David Thoreau
We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later. -- Charles Mackay
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.... -- Allen Tate
The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity. -- Naomi Klein
Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. -- Ovid
Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail. -- Bernard Membe
It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt. -- Wole Soyinka
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes. -- Isabel Allende
It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity -- Lewis Carroll
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. -- Anton Chekhov
Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity. -- George Eliot
When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us. -- Wole Soyinka
Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest. -- Frederick Douglass
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose. -- Jonathan Capehart
We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity. -- Ravi Zacharias
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. -- George Washington
Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity. -- Angelina Jolie
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
Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity. -- Mike Pence
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion. -- Amy Vanderbilt
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
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 often small indeed. -- Max Weber
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
It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. -- John Ruskin
Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism. -- Jemima Khan
Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity. -- James Dobson
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them? -- Andrew Napolitano
Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule. -- Don Feder
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
American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity. -- Richard A. Falk
Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly. -- Sarah Stillman

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