Theodore Parker Quotes

"Wealth and want equally harden the human heart."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Heart, Wealth, Want)

"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
(Related: Death, Soul, Brother, Body, Injustice, Miser, Poor)

"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Books, Help)

"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Character, Religious, Self)

"Remorse is the pain of sin."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Pain, Remorse, Sin)

"Politics is the science of urgencies."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Politics, Science)

"Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Judgment)

"No man is so great as mankind."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Man, Mankind)

"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Time, Sacrifice, Desire, Duty, Eternity, Will)

"Humanity is the sin of God."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: God, Humanity, Sin)

"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Civilization, Cities, Light)

"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Society, Poverty)

"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
(Related: Truth, Soul, Man, Will)

"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Self)