Impunity Quotations

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

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.

On the second anniversary of Charles Taylor's flight to Nigeria, his continued impunity is undermining the rule of law in West Africa and putting civilians in the region at risk.

sent an important message to the world that there should be no impunity for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

If we wish to maintain peace, then we cannot accept that impunity be provided to these international criminals and drug dealers.

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

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.

There is a culture of impunity that no one would be held fully accountable for detainee deaths.

While this is a positive development in the fight against impunity for police killings, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and is not enough to restore the public's faith in the Jamaican judicial system.

The strategy of putting justice on hold for an elusive peace settlement has emboldened human rights abusers on both sides of the conflict. This approach has fueled a pervasive culture of impunity that has led to ever-increasing acts of violence against civilians.

The Security Council should not only explicitly reiterate that there can be no impunity for crimes under international law, but also must decide on concrete action to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

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

Despite shortcomings, it was a momentous day for Iraqis. It sends a signal that the days of unlimited impunity for these types of crimes may be winding down.

This brazen attack, carried out in broad daylight, ingrained impunity more than any other single act in recent Cambodian history. But that appears to have been one of its purposes.

In an incredibly striking contrast, Bush voters are united on virtually all the questions that divide the Kerry vote. So, Bush can advance his agenda with impunity while taking aim at Kerry voters who are antagonized by their candidate whenever he has to choose a position. If Kerry can get people to listen and think, Bush is toast.

Impunity from prosecution for human rights violations is the most important problem in the region, and the most widespread.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

The current serious crisis in Sri Lanka in no way justifies the impunity prevailing in the murders of journalists and human rights activists.

The Maoists are striking at the government with impunity now,

It really (angers me) because these people lied with impunity and secondly it cost the defendants a lot of money and time, and cost the taxpayers.

There needs to be greater awareness on a wider level of the rights of women and children and also punishment for those who violate laws by selling their children. The impunity available to them has aggravated the situation.

You have a situation where the board made a commitment to the shareholders and adopted a policy in response to the clear majority of the shareholders. Now, they're turning their back on that and with impunity just disregarding it.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

All war aims for impunity.

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

It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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

No man provokes me with impunity.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.