| Hannah Arendt |  The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt |
| Harold Bloom | Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
Harold Bloom |
| Hector Berlioz | At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
Hector Berlioz |
| Helen Suzman | I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
Helen Suzman |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
| Hermann Ebbinghaus | The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus |
| Howard Nemerov | The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
Howard Nemerov |
| Ian Mckellen | If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.
Ian Mckellen |
| impressiveness | And he assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new suspicion. |
| intolerable | Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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| irish | Irish police free a man held over an explosives find, after Slovakian authorities admit planting them in his luggage. |
| Isaac Newton | We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Isaac Newton |
| J. D. Salinger | It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. Salinger |
| J. L. Austin | In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
J. L. Austin |
| Jack Kevorkian | I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian |
| Jack Lemon | When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
Jack Lemon |
| Janis Karpinski | We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
Janis Karpinski |
| Jean Kerr | I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
Jean Kerr |
| Jean Racine | Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
Jean Racine |
| Jeff Miller | We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Jeff Miller |
