I am what I am. So take me as I am: CJI quotes thinker in Section 377 verdict
CJI Dipak Misra, while pronouncing the verdict partially striking down Section 377 of the IPC, quoted German philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe saying, "I am what I am. So take me as I am". "No one can escape from their individualism. Society is now better for individualism", CJI Misra added. He said that judgement decriminalising homosexuality was a unanimous one.