Admit Guilt

Famous quotes containing the words admit guilt, admit and/or guilt:

“It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–75)

“I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.”
—Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

“Accuse. To affirm another’s guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)