Fraternity Quotes

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Equality, Liberty, Teach

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• Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

  Tim Hetherington

  Mean, Sacrifice, Brotherhood

  "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

  Hjalmar Branting

  Desire, Human Nature, Humans

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• Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

  Wilfrid

  Fusion, Unions, Absorption

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Wisdom, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions

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• A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

  Newton D. Baker

  College, Men, Association

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• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Equality, Two, Political

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Equality, People, Liberty

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• By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal
  respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of
  the entire human family.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Men, Dwelling, House

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• A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

  Stephen Crane

  Mysterious, Danger, Born

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• A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

  E. B. White

  Ideas, Perspective, Feelings

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

  Mao Zedong

  Drama, Passion, Winning

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• The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

  Albert Pike

  Rays, Pouring, Common

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Fraternity has subtleties.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Subtlety

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 53, 2006.

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• The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Real, Heart

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• You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

  Jim Palmer

  Integrity, People, Able

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God', as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Blessed, Son

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• The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

  Tarja Halonen

  Strong, Equality, Justice

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• I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Thinking, Land, Theory

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• I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.

  Charlie Trotter

  Party, People, Scene

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• We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

  Art Garfunkel

  Kids, Nuts, Practice

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• The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Writing, Expression, Order

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• If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

  Tony Judt

  Political, Turns, Objectives

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.93, Penguin

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