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Quotes About Fraternity

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others.12 No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. They
~ Eric Hoffer
You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.
~ Pope John Paul II
The appearance of the yearbook clears up another high school mystery - why all the popular girls put up with the disgusting habits of Todd Ryder. He is a pig. Greasy, sleazy, foul-mouthed, and unwashed, he'll make a great addition to a state college fraternity. But the popular kissed up to him all year. Why? Todd Ryder is the yearbook photographer.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.
~ George W. Bush
More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.
~ Joseph Fort Newton
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words--liberty, equality, and fraternity--do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.
~ Harry S. Truman
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.
~ Ernest Hemingway
É bom que não tenhamos de tentar matar a lua, o sol ou as estrelas. Já é ruim viver no mar e ter de matar os nossos verdadeiros irmãos
~ Ernest Hemingway
Left to their own devices, Valenti and his son Kyle tended to live like a couple of undergrads in some low-rent fraternity house.
~ Andy Mangels
Wherever I go, I now easily get the attention of the sports fraternity.
~ Sangram Singh
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.
~ Don McCullin
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
~ Thomas Huxley
Whatever we think about the revolutions, the original slogan of the French Revolution – liberté, égalité, fraternité – was just a slogan, and nobody troubled to ask themselves whether liberté and égalité were compatible in practice. Really the subsequent history has been an illustration of that conflict between them.
~ Roger Scruton
On jest moim bratem. Ale to nie moja wina.
~ Roger Zelazny
A library undermines whatever order it might possess, with random pairings and casual fraternities.
~ Alberto Manguel
No matter who initiated these activities, the good boys in each chapter didn't stop them from happening. Objectification of women and tolerance of racism are massive problems in fraternity culture at large.
~ Alexandra Robbins
Cualquiera que mida su progreso en ser como Cristo solamente en términos del crecimiento de su comunión con Dios está haciendo una medición incompleta. La madurez espiritual también incluye el crecimiento en la fraternidad con los hijos de Dios.
~ Donald S. Whitney
I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.
~ Miranda Cosgrove
Reconhecer que somos irmãos é sempre suspeito, quando esse reconhecer envolve, de nossa parte, a aceitação de condições duras e, da outra parte, não envolve nada além de palavras
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)
~ Ferrol Sams
For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
~ Tim Matheson
Guru and I had a house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, for a while and we used to have wild parties there when we weren't in the studio. It was like a fraternity house.
~ DJ Premier