"Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions."

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Source : James Mill (1829). “Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, Liberty of the Press, and Law of Nations. Written for the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”

James Mill

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Action Quotes

“That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.”
“I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.”
“My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.”
“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.”
“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”
“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”
“It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.”
“I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.”

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