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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. Daniel Webster

Faith never makes a confession.

Henry David Thoreau

As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'

James Nesbitt

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Earl Warren

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Mahatma Gandhi

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!

Ernestine Rose

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

Zadie Smith

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Saint Augustine

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

DeWitt Clinton

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Horatio Alger

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.

Thomas Monaghan

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Scott Shane

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

Billy Sunday

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Helen Rowland

I have a confession to make - I truly love country music.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.

Denis O'Hare

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Daniel Webster

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.

Giacomo Casanova

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

George Weinberg

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Germaine Greer

My whole act is confession.

Shelley Berman

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

Maria Monk

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Dorothy Dix

Acting is a form of confession.

Tallulah Bankhead

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.

Regina Brett

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

Mercedes McCambridge

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Georg Simmel

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

Adam Cohen

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

Erik Erikson

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Francois Truffaut