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• As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Venture, Able

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.37

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• Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

  Victor Hugo

  Tonterías

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les miserables”, p.205, Victor Hugo

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• It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Two, Healthy

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.169, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No one provokes me with impunity.

  María, Reina de Escocia

  Punishment, Provoking

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• One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

  Max Weber

  Wish, Trying, Tasks

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.295, University of Chicago Press

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• Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.

  Albert Camus

  Giving, Choices, Bitterness

  Albert Camus (2012). "El mito de Sísifo: And Other Essays", p.67, Vintage

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• The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Opposites, Duplicity

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• For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health care in the Western world. But look at the rest of the world. Still in many places, women are sold into premature marriages, prostitution, forced labor; they are forced to have children that they cannot support or that they don't want. They are abused, tortured, exploited and even killed with impunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, Support, Looks

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, Thinking

  "Rio and the New Millennium" by Vaclav Havel, www.nytimes.com. June 3, 1992.

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• Así como los errores más extravagantes fueron recibidos entre los artículos establecidos de su fe, así los vicios más infames obtuvieron en su práctica, y fueron complacidos no sólo con impunidad, sino autorizados por la sanción de sus leyes.

  David Brainerd

  Errores, Derecho, Práctica

  David Brainerd (1818). "La Vida del Reverendo David Brainerd, Misionero a los Indios: De la Honorable Sociedad de Escocia para la Propagación del Conocimiento Cristiano; que murió en Northampton en Nueva Inglaterra, el 9 de octubre de 1747 ...", p.473

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• He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Use, Authority

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• THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ideas, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.848, Library of America

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• Soy de la firme opinión de que, después de los veintiún años, un hombre no debería estar fuera de la cama y despierto a las cuatro de la mañana. La hora engendra pensamiento. A los veintiún años, la vida es todo futuro, puede ser examinada con impunidad. Pero a los treinta, convertida en una incómoda mezcla de futuro y pasado, es algo que sólo debe mirarse cuando el sol está alto y el mundo lleno de calor y optimismo.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Mañana, Pasado, Insomnio

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). "The Little Nugget", p.40, The Floating Press.

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• there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Faith, Real, Book

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• One cannot use with impunity the different categories of beings-animals, plants, the natural elements-simply as one wishes, according to economic needs. One must take into account the nature of each being and its mutual connection in an ordered system, which is the cosmos.

  Pope John Paul II

  Animal, Environmental, Wish

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• The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.

  Brennan Manning

  Religious, Confused, Lying

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• People do not read stupidities with impunity.

  Victor Hugo

  Stupid, People, Stupidity

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Rose, Noses

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881

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• Es sobre todo en la época democrática actual cuando los verdaderos amigos de la libertad y de la grandeza humana deben permanecer constantemente vigilantes y dispuestos a impedir que el poder social sacrifique a la ligera los derechos particulares de unos cuantos individuos a la ejecución general de sus designios. En tales tiempos no hay ciudadano tan oscuro que no sea muy peligroso permitir que se le oprima, y no hay derechos individuales tan poco importantes que puedan sacrificarse impunemente a la arbitrariedad.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Amigo verdadero, Sacrificio, Derechos

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• The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.

  Ed Crane

  Party, Government, Average

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

  Junot Díaz

  Father, League, Arbitrary

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. April 8, 2008.

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

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Literature, May

  Denis Diderot (1966). "Escritos escogidos", New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

  William Hague

  Derechos, Gobierno, Legislación

  "Libya air strikes". Live coverage of the continuing military action in Libya, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Nunca, jamás, negociar con terroristas. Hay que darles caza y, lo que es más importante, castigar sin piedad a los Estados y grupos que financian, arman, apoyan o simplemente permiten que sus territorios sean utilizados impunemente por los terroristas.

  Meir Kahane

  Apoyo, Importante, Grupos

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