Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker
Theodore Parkerwas an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 August 1810
CountryUnited States of America
Theodore Parker quotes about
heart asylums faces
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
greatness men race
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
greatness
The most useful is the greatest.
greatness men mankind
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
greatness men world
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
greatness torment
Greatness is its own torment.
believe government rights
I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.
fashion coats arms
The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
dark men civilization
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.
truth sides ease
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
men soul produce
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.
business taken men
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.
heart want wealth
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
science greek truth-is
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.