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• Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.

  Albert Meltzer

  Mean, Class, Perfect

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• Even Bertrand Russell, who fancied he saw flaws in Christ's character, confessed nonetheless that 'What the world needs is love, Christian love, or compassion.' But this belies a belief in what most others acknowledge, namely, that Christ was the perfect manifestation of the virtue of love.

  Norman Geisler

  Christian, Jesus, Character

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• The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself

  Ken Wilber

  Two, Perfect, Effort

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.256, Shambhala Publications

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• Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life — that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' — but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man — and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

  Lewis Carroll

  Death, Character, Men

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.265, Delphi Classics

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• None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Perfect, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.7, editionNEXT.com

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• We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Long, Perfect

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.510, Manonmani Publishers

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• Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Winning, Perfect, May

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

  Zhuangzi

  Helping Others, Men, Perfect

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• Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

  Catharine Macaulay

  Men, Law, Perfect

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• Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Strong Women, Gay

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• The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

  Armand Salacrou

  Running, Atheist, Men

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• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Men, Names

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• God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Perfect, Might, Conformity

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.35, Hackett Publishing

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• I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

  Mos Def

  Men, Perfect, Do The Best

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• Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

  David Beckham

  Hate, Men, Eyebrows

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• The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Past, Men, Thinking

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• The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and, whatever his talents might be, in a far less perfect manner.

  Paul Delaroche

  Photography, Perfect, Might

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• Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

  Daniel Webster

  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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• I'm certainly an imperfect man. And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ that I've been redeemed from my sins. So I know that God doesn't call me to do a specific thing, God hasn't given me a list, a Ten Commandments of things to act on the first day. What God calls us to do is follow his will. And ultimately that's what I'm going to try to do.

  Scott Walker

  Jesus, Men, Blood

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Rivers, Perfect

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• All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness

  Ken Wilber

  Perfect, Facts, Depth

  Ken Wilber (1998). “The Essential Ken Wilber”, p.101, Shambhala Publications

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• I think every individual, and every society, is perfected just in proportion to the combination, and cooperation, of masculine and feminine elements of character. He is the most perfect man who is affectionate as well as intellectual; and she is the most perfect woman who is intellectual as well as affectionate. Every art and science becomes more interesting, viewed both from the masculine and feminine points of view.

  Lydia M. Child

  Art, Character, Men

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