Theodore Parker Quotes

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.

There's no such thing as morality.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

Do not follow a multitude to do evil.

There is one voice which is not heard in the crackling of the fire or in the roaring of the whirlwind or the storm, but which will and must be heard when they have passed away—the still small voice of justice.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

If the parties will at my hands call for justice, then, all ... stood on the one side, and the Devil on the other, his cause being good, the Devil should have the right.

Do ye suppose that mercy can rob justice? I say unto you, Nay; not one whit. If so, God would cease to be God

Grant, then, to Your servant an understanding mind to judge Your people, to distinguish between good and bad; for who can judge this vast people of yours?

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.