Impunity Quotes - Page 6

• No sinner has the right to say with impunity, 'God you owe me grace.' If grace is owed, it is not grace. The very essence of grace is its voluntary character. God reserves to himself the sovereign, absolute right to give grace to some and withhold that grace from others.

  R. C. Sproul

  Character, Essence, Giving

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• One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.

  Pope John Paul II

  Animal, Environmental, Wish

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• For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, Support, Looks

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.

  Ed Crane

  Party, Government, Average

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• 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

  Ambition, Order, Desire

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1719, Delphi Classics

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• No man provokes me with impunity.

  Ovid

  Men, Provoking

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• 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

  Rights, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Military, Baghdad, Hollywood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• My government revoked my passport intentionally to leave me exiled. If they really wanted to capture me, they would've allowed me to travel to Latin America, because the CIA can operate with impunity down there. They did not want that; they chose to keep me in Russia.

  Edward Snowden

  Latin, Russia, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Thinking, Different

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Humanity from the first has had its vultures and sharks, and representatives of the fraternity who prey upon mankind may be expected no less in America than elsewhere. That this virulence breaks out most readily and commonly against colored persons in this country, is due of course to the fact that they are, generally speaking, weak and can be imposed upon with impunity. Bullies are always cowards at heart.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Heart, Sharks

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Lying, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2123, Delphi Classics

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• For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Dream, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.165, Рипол Классик

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• Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sometimes, Wit

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• But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful.

  Charles Ferguson

  Children, Book, Successful

  Charles Ferguson (2014). “Inside Job: The Financiers Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century”, p.5, Oneworld Publications

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• So, apparently, if you are a pre-sentient mass of cells, this country will protect you and your rights to the n-th degree. If you have made the mistake of becoming an Iraqi citizen, apparently we can just drop bombs on you with impunity.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Country, Mistake, Rights

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• One of the things that will probably need to be addressed is in the treatment of history, i.e. the Presidential Papers Act. If they can act with impunity, if they know that what they're doing is not going to see the light of day anytime in their lifetime, if they have the right to withhold information from the public, then presidents are given a vastly freer hand.

  Ted Gup

  Hands, Light, Presidential

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Government, Liberty, Individual

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Political essays [etc., 1792-1804] Contents. Index”, p.849

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• 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

  Thinking, Law, Rewriting

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2015

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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

  Choices, Groups, Weapons

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• 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

  Rights, Rome, Leader

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• [Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the judge that discovered the Defense Department lawyers were lying to him in open court, and instead of actually sanctioning them, he demanded that they go to a new ethics course to learn the proper behavior and decorum and the law in court, that you just can't lie with impunity to a judge.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Law, Judging

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I would never accept general impunity for the guerrillas!

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Accepting, Guerrillas

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Russia, Ukraine, Land

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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