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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

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong. — Josefina Vazquez Mota

The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity. — Steve Aylett

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Nobody does good to men with impunity. — Auguste Rodin

Nemo Me Impugn Lacessit - No One Assails Me with Impunity. Or the alternative version - Do Not Fuck with Us or We Will Hurt You — Michael Grant

All war aims for impunity. — Michael Ignatieff

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. — John Le Carre

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity — Thomas Jefferson

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation. — Ammianus Marcellinus

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity. — Lawrence M. Krauss

One cannot sass me with impunity. — Kevin Hearne

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

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. — Ralph Chaplin

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

No one provokes me with impunity. — Mary, Queen Of Scots

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. — Denis Diderot

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

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

That was the one advantage of growing old - it let you be nasty with impunity. — Jacob M. Appel

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity. — Alvaro Uribe

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

Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail. — Bernard Membe

War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. — John Connolly

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. — Isabel Allende

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity. — Yoweri Museveni

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. — Diane Setterfield

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

I drink with impunity ... or anyone else who invites me. — W.C. Fields

With impunity the thief will steal until his thieves' hand isn't cut. — Nikita Alfredovich Nikolayenko

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them. — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity. — Steven Erikson

It's amazing, the impunity with which history gets rewritten. — C. Gockel

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. — Anton Chekhov

No one can walk beneath palm trees with impunity, and ideas are sure to change in a land where elephants and tigers are at home. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity. — Isabel Allende

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you want to denounce impunity then you have to start with denouncing the impunity that the regime enjoys. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity. — Carol Tavris

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes. — Isabel Allende

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. — Ovid

You don't run amok for long with impunity, you're bound to be struck down in the end ... — Stefan Zweig

Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. — John Le Carre

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity. — Glen Duncan

People do not read stupidities with impunity. — Victor Hugo

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. — Henry David Thoreau

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. — Naomi Klein

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

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. — Charles Farrar Browne

I knew it would annoy her. She'd deliberately tried to provoke me, and one cannot sass me with impunity. — Kevin Hearne

The Mexican utopia has consisted of enjoying your fifteen minutes of impunity. — Juan Villoro

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity. — Victor Hugo

...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'. — Robert Wade

They gave death with impunity as they followed a war-maddened Scotsman down an enemy wall that was sticky with blood. — Bernard Cornwell

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity. — Simon Wiesenthal

And so long as we give ourselves to faith in him, with calm and quiet minds, he will not permit the wicked to injure us with impunity. — John Calvin

Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose. — Robert Browning

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity? — Jean Racine

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

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity — Lewis Carroll

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg. — Frank Darabont