Quotes About Fraternity

Engineering didn't take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

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.

The moral system of a college fraternity turns out to be classically tribal, i.e., characterized by a deeply felt sense of honor, discretion, and loyalty to one's so-called 'brothers,' coupled with a complete, sociopathic lack of regard for the interests or even humanity of anyone outside that fraternal set.

They have insisted so much on Equality, that there is no room left for Liberty and little for Fraternity.

I took a puff of the wrong cigarette at a fraternity dance once, and the cops had to get me, y'know. I broke two teeth trying to give a hickie to the Statue of Liberty.

La fraternité, Messieurs, réclame pour son exercice une certaine médiocrité démographique.

Avec l'amour, l'amitié et la fraternité d'action, l'art est le plus court chemin d'un homme à un autre.

fraternité: "Be my brother or I will kill you.

It's sort of like hazing, a fraternity prank. Sort of like that kind of fun.

Mike ignored me and walked off. I understood the dynamic and knew that, as close as the three of us were, I was an outsider in these circumstances. The fraternity of police officers who put their lives on the line every day for the rest of us circles the wagons pretty tightly when one of their own is harmed

Tu ne tenais pas de discours grandiloquents sur la fraternité, mais tu portais toujours une attention aux obscurs, aux vulnérables, pas uniquement parce que toi-même tu te rangeais parmi ceux-là, mais parce que les puissants pleins de certitude, ceux qui veulent à tout prix attirer la lumière sur eux, te faisaient craindre que ce monde ne devienne vraiment irrespirable.

We had all thought things would be quite different when we first came to France. The words Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were painted in giant letters over the door of the building we were in.

Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys' club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That's good for the masons themselves, but it's our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that's a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, 'the brotherhood,' remain anonymous.

Part of being in the 450 players within the NBA, it's kind of a fraternity field, and if I can help them get involved in some business ventures they have interest in and help educate them along the way, I feel it is my duty to do so.

Nós levantamos nossos copos e bebemos à IGUALDADE, à sagrada IGUALDADE; e, em seguida, ordenamos ao garçom para nos trazer Chartreuse Verde e mais charutos

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

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother. Proverb.

Genius guarantees the faculties of the heart. Man is no less immortal than the soul. Great thoughts spring from reason! Fraternity is not a myth. Newborn children know nothing of life, not even greatness. In misfortune, friends increase.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.

Something about the fraternal atmosphere of a billiards hall reassured the soul. The isolated pool of light over a table of green felt was an indoor hydroponic zone where what grew was the prickly plant of masculine emotion, too sensitive for sunlight and fresh air.

But for all we thought we knew about them, there were some things we knew we did not know even after many years of forced and voluntary intimacy, including the art of making cranberry sauce, the proper way of throwing a football, and the secret customs of secret societies, like college fraternities, which seemed to recruit only those who would have been eligible for the Hitler Youth. Not