Theodore Parker Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Mankind

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.253

• The most useful is the greatest.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness

• 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.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Race

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics”, p.135

• There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, Institutions

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.205

• For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

  Theodore Parker

  Kings, Greatness, Years

• Greatness is its own torment.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Torment

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.89

• In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

  Theodore Parker

  Greatness, Men, World

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.1

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