Quotes by Theodore Parker

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”

“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 divi...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.”

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

“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.”

“Humanity is the Son of God.”

“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.”

“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.”

“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.”

“Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to impr...”

“The world no doubt grows better; comfort is increased from age to age. What is a luxury in one generation, scarce attainable by the wealthy, becomes at last the possession of most men. Solomon with...”

“Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.”

“All men desire to be immortal.”

“If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be t...”

“You and I may perish. Temptation which has been too strong for thousands of stronger men, may be too great for me; I may prove false to my own idea of religion and of duty; the gold of commerce may...”

“Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God. On this world about us He has inscribed His thought, in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thou...”

“Remorse is the pain of sin.”