Confessions Quotes
70 quotes by 67 authors
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude…
— Hannah Arendt
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That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained…
— Stephen Stigler
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'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'
— Benedict Joseph Labre
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Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
— Charles Simmons
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Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel…
— Regina Spektor
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I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls...From what…
— Megan Fox
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A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the…
— Christine Schutt
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In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much…
— Marie Antoinette
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Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . .…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
— Russell M. Nelson
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If we knew that we would meet the Lord tomorrow-through our premature death or through His unexpected coming-what would we do today? What confessions would…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very…
— Pierre Klossowski
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Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent…
— Pope Francis
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Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety…
— Aldrich Ames
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the…
— Walter Pater
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Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who…
— Ernst Thalmann
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Tulse Luper, who without too many confessions, in a sense, is a fictive version of me. I have to say he has far more exciting…
— Peter Greenaway
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They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand…
— Emile Zola
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