William Temple (October 15, 1881-October 26, 1944) was the 98th Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44; Archbishop of York, 1929-42, and the bishop of Manchester, 1921-29. Active in social and economic matters, William Temple wrote in The Malvern Manifesto:
<There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.> 1881WT001
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1881WT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Temple, in The Malvern Manifesto. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 775.