Theodore Parker Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

  Theodore Parker

  Life, Success, Home

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.86

• 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

• Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

  Theodore Parker

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.221

• 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

• Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Ideas, Justice

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.57

• What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Success, Succeed, Habit

  Theodore Parker (1871). “The Collected Works of ... P. ...”

• No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

  Theodore Parker

  Long, Hopeful, Despair

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.39

• No man is so great as mankind.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Mankind

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology: Sermons”, p.55

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