#impunity

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#corruption #impunity #strong #too

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

#articles #authorized #errors #established #extravagant

All war aims for impunity. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#impunity #war

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

#armed #bands #burning #central #children

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them. ↗

— Charles Farrar Browne

#drink #impunity #invites #them #who

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#crime #impunity #isolation #rural-life #sherlock-holmes

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

— Simon Wiesenthal

#could #history #i #impunity #kill

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

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

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

— Denis Diderot

#harassment #impunity #inflict #kind #man

If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#by the people #classified #control #could #data