Mohamedou Ould Slahi

I told the people before they tortured me, please, don't torture me. I didn't do anything. They say, we have to torture you very much. Then when they tortured me, I told them everything they want to hear. I signed confession. That said, the ball was in their court. You know, I very much surrender to my lot.

Aleksandar Hemon

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

Bosniak Writer

Connie Nielsen

The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written.

Danish Actress

Giacomo Casanova

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.

Italian Celebrity

Andrew Flintoff

Now, I have a confession to make. I hate warm-ups with a passion. Worst part of the whole day. Nonsense, they are.

English Entertainer

Karl Marx

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

German Philosopher

Alison Bechdel

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.

American Cartoonist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

American Philosopher

Saint Augustine

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

Saint

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Austrian Philosopher

Confession often carries emotional weight, expressing regret or shame.

Emotional Weight

Sharing a confession can be relieving, like unburdening a secret.

Personal Release

Confessions imply a level of trust between the person confessing and the listener.

Trust Involved

This type of confession reveals personal or collective identity through beliefs.

Reflecting Identity

It often takes courage to openly confess one's principles, especially if controversial.

Moral Courage

Confession in religion may follow specific rituals or traditional formats.

Religious Ritual

Religious confessions are considered private, shared only with a priest.

Sacred Privacy

In legal contexts, confessions can serve as strong evidence in court.

Legal Evidence

Legally, one has the right not to confess, to avoid self-incrimination.

Right to Silence

 my second-grade class at school. But when she said it, the phrase seemed all caught up in the excitement of preparations for our first communion and our first confession, and everybody knew that was really all about the white dress and the white veil. And anyway, I hadn't really paid all that much attention to that phrase, "age of reason."

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 All of these fallibilities of memory can have real-world impacts. If police interrogations use leading questions with eye witnesses or suspects, suggestibility could result in incorrect identifications or unreliable confessions. Even in the absence of leading questions, misattribution can lead to inaccurate eyewitness testimony.

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 suspect might lie or tell the truth they may be innocent or guilty interrogation is a high stakes game too much pressure and an innocent person might confess to a crime they didn't commit most people like to think that there is no such thing as a false confession that some

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 what happened I have a confession okay I actually thought it was C so start to question your own judgement I did I don't want to be the dumb kid I want to stand out you know I was like hey have you ever ignored the truth to fit in with a group just think what if those

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 But it's interesting that so many teens, significantly more teens than adults, signed the confession saying that they cheated. They hadn't cheated, but they signed this form anyway saying that they had, rarely attempting to involve a parent in the situation.

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 Without this kind of inclusion, our feminism is nothing. I hold these truths to be self-evident, but let me be I'm a mess. I am full of contradictions. There are many ways in which I'm doing feminism wrong. I have another confession.

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 Among these negative confessions, or declarations of innocence, he proclaims that he has not made anyone cry, is not an eavesdropper, and has not polluted the water. But did Ani really live such a perfect life?

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 there's my other confession is I'm going to blame pregnancy for the father he makes me laugh without really having to say anything so this could be super awkward if I just turn into some

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 But first, I want you to make a little confession to me. In the past year, I want you to just raise your hand if you've experienced relatively little stress. Anyone?

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 Alright. I have a confession to make. Because I don't want to make this entire TED Talk about myself, I lied and said that this is a friend. It was actually me.