Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
“Perfect governments are only to be found where the prisons are full.”
Speech at the Institute of Public Administration, London (26 October 1933), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 53.
1933
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Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Half the Perfect World" (2006) (co-written with Anjani)
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Context: The candles burned
The moon went down
The polished hill
The milky town
Transparent, weightless, luminous
Uncovering the two of us
On that fundamental ground
Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound
And half the perfect world is found.
“The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists…”
Dean Acheson book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Principles
“I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
On declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793). [Source: David William Bates, Enlightenment aberrations: error and revolution in France (Cornell University Press, 2002), p. 169]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Pt. III, sec. 3, ch. 2 Lectures on the History of History Vol 1 p. 344 John Sibree translation (1857), 1914
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
Context: It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true in and for itself?" Many think that by pronouncing a doctrine to be Neo-Platonic, they have ipso facto banished it from Christianity. Whether a Christian doctrine stands exactly thus or thus in the Bible, the point to which the exegetical scholars of modern times devote all their attention is not the only question. The Letter kills, the Spirit makes alive: this they say themselves, yet pervert the sentiment by taking the Understanding for the Spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Harijan (21 July 1940)
1940s
“All the Universe is full of the life of perfect creatures.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory
from "The Scientific Ethics", 1930 https://web.archive.org/web/20050808081615/http://www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html
Stewart Leggett (1944) Australian politician
HIV/AIDS - Hepatitis B Inquiry (Part II): Dissenting Statement by Mr Stewart Leggett MP (1997)
“Peace, freedom and justice are only to be found where people are prepared to defend them.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Speech to the Conservative Party Convention 1982 https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105032 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Address at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; quoted in The Independent, London (22 March 1990)