Brotherhood Quotes - Page 5

• The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

  Kingsley Amis

  Disappointment, Real, Loss

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• As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Stars, Men, Diversity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.945, Best Books on

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• I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

  Leyla Zana

  Rights, Long, Democracy

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• We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mutual Love, Body, Social

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• There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

  Alfred Adler

  Love, Men, Years

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• Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

  James A. Garfield

  Links, Common, Mankind

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.561, Best Books on

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• The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.

  Len Wein

  Believe, Character, Evil

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• While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

  Adam Schiff

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

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• I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Faith, Believe, May

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• Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

  Aime Cesaire

  Looks, Chill, Communism

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• The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

  Max Hastings

  Peace, War, Features

  Max Hastings (2008). “Retribution”, p.12, Vintage

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• The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

  Charles Hodge

  Independent, Organization, Two

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• Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Justice

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  Paul Getty

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Class

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• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Country, Class, Differences

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• The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Erotic, Males

  "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

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• I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.

  Tom Glazer

  Song, Feelings, Humanity

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• The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.

  Lewis Mumford

  Humanity, Earth, Action

  Lewis Mumford (1954). “In the Name of Sanity”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

  Tom Glazer

  Song, Passion, Writing

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• The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brother, Men, Sheep

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Ignorance, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  "Man of Honor, Man of Peace: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson". Book by Robert L. Polley, p. 61, 1965.

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• The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

  R. D. Laing

  Freedom, Blow, Men

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 4

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• Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Depressing, Reality

  "The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

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• To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Civilization, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.159, Penguin

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• There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

  Eric Hoffer

  Brother, Jail, Chance

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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