Immunity Quotes

• Can you imagine what that little conversation is going to look like, held in the independent counsel's office, with the people there who have the capacity to put Ms. Lewinsky in jail? ... Can we really say that it's just normal, just OK, to have one side using the might and majesty of the independent counsel's office threatening a witness with violation of an immunity agreement if she doesn't fly across the country for this little chat? I think not.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • People
  • Country
  • She

• I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is that all of us should be invovled in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

  

  Harry Chapin
  • Success
  • Responsibility
  • Oblivion

• Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.

  

  Alexander Lebedev
  • Newspaper
  • Owning
  • Immunity

• Born to a premature death, a menial, subsistence-wage worker, odd-job man, the cleaner, the caught, the man under hatches, without bail-that's me, the colonial victim. Anyone who can pass the civil service examination today can kill me tomorrow. Anyone who passed the civil service examination yesterday can kill me today with complete immunity.

  

  George Jackson
  • Victim
  • Examination
  • Immunity

• Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Laugh
  • Temptation
  • Succumb

• She didn’t want to have to spend her days battling her reactions to those male eyes of his, but then again, maybe she’d build up an immunity to them, the way children built up an immunity to the pox.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Children
  • Reactions
  • Battling

• Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

  

  Nella Larsen
  • People
  • Ordinary
  • Hypocrisy

• Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost and Judaism has never had.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Criticism
  • Christianity
  • Islam

• Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.

  

  Monica Lewinsky
  • Important
  • Needed
  • Getting

• The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Immunity

• Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. ‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’ I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Reputation
  • Members
  • Damage

• If she is given full immunity ... in order to verify that she's telling the truth, which I'm sure she is, I would be happy to submit her to a polygraph examination. Lie detector's not a good word because they can't detect lies.

  

  William H. Ginsburg
  • Given
  • Would
  • Telling

• I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

  

  Monica Lewinsky
  • Truth
  • Independent
  • Office