Impunity Quotes - Page 7

• Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Strong, Men, Wrath

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• If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.

  William Ralph Inge

  Giving Up, Real, Fall

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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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• 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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• Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Class, Hands

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• This issue of expanding the reach of international criminal law by reliance on the use of Universal Jurisdiction by domestic courts needs to be balanced against the injustice of according impunity to those with strong geopolitical backing. It is notable that several western European countries backtracked on UJ after threats of retaliatory moves by the United States and Israel. There is no doubt that the domain of UJ is a geopolitical battleground.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Strong, Moving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the United States within the UN prevents implementation. At the same time, several African leaders are being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity and participation in genocide: a double standard of sorts, given the impunity accorded to the West and Israel.

  Richard A. Falk

  Punishment, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The story of Taliban recovery and resurgence begins in the places where they took refuge after 2001. And as long as those leadership structures and training structures operate outside of Afghanistan with relative impunity, the conflict will continue.

  Chris Alexander

  Recovery, Long, Training

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It's very clear that Vladimir Putin has decided that he will eliminate his opponents and anyone who stands up for democracy and freedom. And he does so with relative impunity.

  John McCain

  Democracy, Doe, Opponents

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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