Impunity Quotes

• Cuando un dirigente fomenta la cultura de la impunidad, la sociedad está perdida y nos dificulta el trabajo a los demás.

  Wole Soyinka

  Hard Work, Leader, Culture

  Fuente: saharareporters.com

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• Nothing predicts future behavior as much as past impunity.

  Jane Mayer

  Past, Behavior

  "Torture and the Truth" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. December 22 & 29, 2014.

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• Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Peligroso

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• The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

  Naomi Klein

  Powerful, Nihilism, Delicacy

  "It's greed, not ideology, that rules the White House" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2003.

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• The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Powerful, Drug

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• What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?

  Andrew Napolitano

  Lying, Jail, Government

  "Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History". Book by Andrew Napolitano, www.foxnews.com. 2010.

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• Pero si las leyes van a ser pisoteadas así impunemente, y una minoría va a dictar a la mayoría, se pone fin de un plumazo al gobierno republicano, y no cabe esperar más que anarquía y confusión a partir de entonces.

  George Washington

  Gobierno, Ley, Confusión

  George Washington (1851). "La vida del General Washington: primer presidente de los Estados Unidos", p.216

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

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Esperanza

  "Pro Tito Annio Milone ad iudicem oratio (Pro Milone)". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section XVI), 52 BC.

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

  Isabel Allende

  Abuse, Abuse Of Power

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• Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

  Allan Bloom

  Media, Hombres, Orden

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• In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Punishment, Criminals, Decay

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.145, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Blow, Rights

  "A deadly franchise" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2003.

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• It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Men, Years, Stupidity

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• Con frecuencia, los hombres hacen el bien sólo para darse la oportunidad de hacer el mal impunemente.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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• A culture of dialogue is breaking down and giving way to a culture of threats and impunity, you can see the strategy already ... and what you have is essentially the threat of imprisonment in order to control people better.

  Sophal Ear

  Orden, Gente, Dar

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• No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ignorance, Nigeria Independence, Nations

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.114, Modern Library

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• A menudo hacemos un bien superficial para realizar impunemente el mal.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Order, Evil, Wickedness

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• In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

  Álvaro Uribe

  Peace, Names, Justice

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• The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. Those who should be rendered accountable under international criminal law, the Kissingers of this world, enjoy de facto impunity, while those who come from countries that have long been targets of hegemonic abuse are used as poster children of accountability.

  Richard A. Falk

  Country, Children, Law

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• Impunity should be condemned in any corner of the world.

  Rigoberta Menchú

  World, Should, Corners

  Fuente: www.indians.org

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• ¿Crees que puedes ser justo y santo impunemente?

  Jean Racine

  Thinking, Holiness, Injustice

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• El mundo es un lugar muy injusto e inequitativo y tenemos que vivir con ello. Históricamente, la mayoría de los delitos quedan impunes.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Unjust, Crime

  Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. June 06, 2003.

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• A veces puede parecer que una cultura de paz no tiene ninguna posibilidad frente a la cultura de la guerra, la cultura de la violencia y las culturas de la impunidad y la intolerancia. En efecto, la paz puede ser un reto complejo, dependiente de la acción en muchos campos e incluso de un poco de suerte de vez en cuando. Puede ser un proceso dolorosamente lento, y frágil e imperfecto cuando se consigue. Pero la paz está en nuestras manos. Podemos conseguirla.

  Kofi Annan

  Tiempo, paz, guerra

  "El Secretario General subraya la necesidad de una cultura de paz". Mensaje de Kofi Annan con motivo del Día Internacional de la Paz (14 de septiembre), www.un.org. 10 de septiembre de 1999.

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

  Josefina Vázquez Mota

  Strong, Circles, Corruption

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

  Enrique Peña Nieto

  Cover Ups, Mexico, Want

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