Definition of Impunity

Impunity

Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.

Related Definitions:

Exemption, Freedom, From, Harm, Loss, Or, Punishment

Impunity Quotations

Nobody does good to men with impunity.
Auguste Rodin

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

All war aims for impunity.
Michael Ignatieff

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

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

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

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

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.
Meir Kahane

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

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

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
Alvaro Uribe Velez

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

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.
Steven T. Katz

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
Sol Wachtler

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

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.
Charles Farrar Browne

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

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
Ralph Chaplin

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Impunity Translations

impunity in German is Straflosigkeit
impunity in Spanish is impunidad

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