Anyone Quote by David K. Shipler

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of…

— Andrew Sullivan

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

— Henri Rousseau

“Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength of the…

— Lorrie Moore

There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions.

— Bill James

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been…

— Simon Hoggart

It is like confessing to a murder.

— Charles Darwin

“The most recent and comprehensive investigation, which took a careful look at 250 prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence, found that 16 percent of them…

— James Duane

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

— William Faulkner

Even when a criminal try to confess with too much explanation it shows guilt !!

— Glen Rambharack

My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

— Alan K. Simpson