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)

“A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised and shocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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