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

Fear Power Abuse Of Power Abuse

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Men Long Sometimes More

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual's right to it is sacred - regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.

Susan B. Anthony

Sex Color Birth Race

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

God Freedom History People

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

Man Woman Harassment May

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.

Fighting View Africa Who

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

Simon Wiesenthal

History People Know Back

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.

Cesare Beccaria

Justice Men Illusion Punishment

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Time You Go Back

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

Support Never Down Important

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Nobody does good to men with impunity.

Good Men Nobody Does

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

Me Father Power Little

The something-for-nothing culture has been championed by a minority of militant union leaders, who threaten strikes with impunity to secure unjustifiable pay hikes.

Culture Who Minority Pay

The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.

Watching Us Right Destroy

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.

Faith Practice Only Laws

In Indiana, gays and lesbians can be fired from their jobs with impunity, and in Arkansas, it's the same thing. We need those protective laws to truly have an equal society.

Society Need Equal Same

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 Kristof

War People Children Now

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

Hope Time Government Law

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

Great Think Religions Us

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

Happen Accountable West Totalitarian

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

Food Powerful Fast Food Like

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

Ingrid Betancourt

Peace Justice Will Accept

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.

Past Crime More Make

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

Person Only Who Make

All war aims for impunity.

Michael Ignatieff

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

Enrique Pena Nieto

Corruption Want Room Mexico

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