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.
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time. 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.
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A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
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'Nothing so endangers the fineness of the human heart as the possession of power over others: nothing so corrodes it as the callous or cruel exercise of that power: and the more helpless the creature over whom power is cruelly or callously exercised, the more the human heart is corroded. It is the recognition of this truth which has brought the conscience of our age, and with it the law, to say that we cannot any longer with impunity regard ourselves as licensed torturers of the rest of creation; that we cannot, for our own sake, afford it.'
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
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Nobody does good to man with impunity.
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity
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All war aims for impunity.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Travellers from afar can lie with impunity.
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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
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