Theodore Parker Quotes

Evil gains work their punishment.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

One wrong submitted to, another follows.

… the only way to remedy what everyone concedes has grown to be a great evil.

A lot of evil has been perpetrated in the name of confronting evil.

History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

How many crimes committed merely because their authors could not endure being wrong.

War being the greatest of evils, all its accessories necessarily partake of the same character.

When I write a story, I try to write them from the perspective of victims. I try to write them from the perspective of families who've been done wrong, who have lost their loved ones or people who have experienced injustice.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

An evil gain equals a loss.