"I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character."

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Source : In re Brandreth, L. J. 60 Q. B. D. 504, 1891.

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.”
“I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!”
“Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute.”
“I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.”
“I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.”
“Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.”

Source : "Alaïa's Not Lagerfeld's Biggest Fan" by Britt Aboutaleb, www.elle.com. June 23, 2011.
“Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.”
“Taking the state wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional criminal class.”

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