Isabel Allende
Novelist
"Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity."
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Impunity
17 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Isabel Allende
Novelist
"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong."
Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity"
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity."
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"Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity."
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"Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity."
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"No man provokes me with impunity."
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"Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity."
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"All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity."
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