Impure Perfect

Famous quotes containing the words impure and/or perfect:

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to,—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,—is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers.”
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1881)