The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
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.
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.
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
I like men who confidently flirt with women they have just met.
The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
The Senate cannot confirm an individual... who would support a scheme that violates our Constitution, eviscerates congressional authority.
A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly, whose clashes make the publication better. It is exhausting and draining, and honestly, the only thing that's harder is probably running a university.
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.
I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
I'm not a person who likes to confront.
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
