Theodore Parker Quotes

Theodore Parker (16)

Birth:	24th August, 1810
Death:	10th May, 1860
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Book

• As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Standard, Poverty, Advance

• Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

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  Tags in Always, Radiated, Civilization, Dark

• Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Good, Facts, Conscience

• Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Often, Judgement

• Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Produce, Dead, Somewhere, Man

• It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Manhood, Servant, Thing, Make

• Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equally, Heart, Wealth, Human

• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Highest, Religious, Kind, Character, Strong

• The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Death, Soul

  Tags in Great, Poor, Body

• Politics is the science of urgencies.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in School

• Remorse is the pain of sin.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sin, Pain

• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Individual

• Humanity is the sin of God.

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in God, Humanity

  Tags in Sin

• Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

  Theodore Parker

  Tags in Worship

• Democracy means not “I am as good as you are” but “You are as good as I am.”

  Theodore Parker

  Topics in Democracy