immunity quotes

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

-Barnes, Djuna
  Doctor. Nightwood, ch.5.

The greatest deliberative body in the world†has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

-Smith, Margaret Chase
  'Declaration of Conscience'address to the Senate,1 Jun, denouncing accusations by SenatorJoseph R McCarthy.

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