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Quotes About Fraternity

This life the old Sabines knew long ago; Remus knew it, and his brother.
~ Virgil
In modern times this millennial aspiration takes the form of equality--of liberty, equality, and fraternity. This is also fanaticism. True equality has never been and never can be on earth.
~ Vivekananda
Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Sam talking to a frat boy - You. O Positive. How many exits? What?....Oh shit, did you just call me by my blood type?
~ Rachel Caine
I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.
~ Rachel Cohn
From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.
~ Dean Koontz
We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.
~ Dennis Lehane
La cultura nos hará libres para evitar la superstición con la que pretenden envolver nuestra vida los curas y los frailes y, sobre todo, para educar a nuestros hijos en la virtud, en la libertad, en la igualdad y en la fraternidad…
~ Unknown
Warriors always seek the brotherhood of their kind.
~ Dan Abnett
I like CrossFit. I agree with a lot of their coaching tips and the foundation of functional movements and hard work. They embody all that stuff. But I also think there's a bit of a cult following within the CrossFit community, a bit of a fraternity, which obviously creates a bias and a little bit of a tunnel vision.
~ Roman Reigns
It is by the press we educate the public mind and link the people of most distant parts together in bonds of fraternity and comradeship. We can keep track of the work and accomplishments of our comrades in no other way, except by the medium of paper.
~ Unknown
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
~ Juan Antonio Samaranch
Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Yale was founded before the advent of the fraternity system, so the white men of generations past had to make up their own structures for sub-erotic bonding and pointless tribalism.
~ John Hodgman
Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.
~ Unknown
The war's military organization was an innocently conceived social society founded by a group, of bored veterans around Christmas 1865. In a law office in Pulaski, Tennessee, the veterans had created a secret fraternity called the Kuklos, after the Greek word for circle. Someone had added clan to reflect the area's Scotch-Irish heritage, and the whole thing had been transmuted
~ John Jakes
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
~ Charles Dickens
Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!
~ Giuseppe Mazzini
Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.
~ Unknown