If we want to avoid making similar mistakes in the future, everybody—especially the most intelligent and powerful—would do well to humbly acknowledge their own weaknesses.
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. ~ Author unknown.
Popularly, one refers cynically to "human nature" in accepting the inevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed, murder, cheating and lying.
In a country more inclined than the West to think of itself as a big familycollective, admissionof guilt is often seen as the first step to readmissioninto society.
In the election postmortems currently being conducted within and without the PAP, the party acknowledges that it has ceased to connect with the voters as it once did.