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)

“They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.”
—Njabulo Ndebele (b. 1948)