television series episode

Confession

episode of Law & Order (S2 E1)

Notable quotes

“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
— Augustine of Hippo, reported in Henry Southgate, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862), p. 671.
“A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.”
— Robert H. Jackson, Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 322 U.S. 143, 161 (1944).
“Stan: But our friend Timmy can't really talk. All he can do is say his own name, so he can't really confess his sins. So is he goin' to go to hell?”
— Trey Parker, "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?", South Park/Season 4, (July 19, 2000)
“Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”
— Solomon, Proverbs 28:13 NIV.
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”
— Daniel Webster, Argument on the murder of Captain White (April 6, 1830).
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter 8.

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