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Quotes About Brotherhood

When a maniac is at the door, feuding brothers reconcile.
~ Peter Kreeft
Look, everything the Communists say about capitalism is true, and everything the capitalists say about Communism is true. The difference is, our system works because it's based on the truth about people's selfishness, and theirs doesn't because it's based on a fairy tale about people's brotherhood. It's such a crazy fairy tale they've got to take people and put them in Siberia in order to get them to believe it.
~ Philip Roth
There were times when I loved my brother because he was such a brat.
~ David Gerrold
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. (1 Peter 5:8–9)
~ David Jeremiah
Brothers are not like sisters.
~ David Levithan
I should have felt proud, but instead I felt awful. That I had let him down so many times, that I had been a horrible brother. That he loved me anyway. That maybe he knew more about life than I did, even if I'd had more experience. Because knowing about life is really about knowing how it should be, not just how it is.
~ David Levithan
But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or your sister. Even if they don't, like, recognize it, you feel it. And in a lot of ways it don't matter if they do or they don't see that for what it is - all you can do is put the feeling out there. That's your duty. Then you just wait and see what comes back to you. That's the deal.
~ Zadie Smith
When he had gotten rid of his exuberance he sat down at once to write to his brother Hal about it, and also his forest-ranger friend, Dick Leslie, with whom he had spent an adventurous time the last summer.
~ Zane Grey
Anytime you get to play your brother, it's a lot of fun.
~ Jack Hughes
A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.
~ Geoff Stults
Coming from a uniformed background I can relate to the army.
~ Rahul Dev
It is so natural to believe in the realization of a noble vision, in the Brotherhood of Man. But, alas! the human machine does not have such divine proportions. Souls that are vast enough to grasp a range of feelings bestowed on great men only will never belong to either fathers of families or simple citizens.
~ Honore de Balzac
The elder boy's plain white collar, turned down over a closely fitting jacket, made a contrast with his brother's clothing, but the color and material were the same; the two brothers were otherwise dressed alike, and looked alike. No one could see them without feeling touched by the way in which Louis took care of Marie. There was an almost fatherly look in the older boy's eyes; and Marie, child though he was, seemed to be full of gratitude to Louis.
~ Honore de Balzac
each variety of humor is a sort of totem, making at once for unity and separation. Its votaries it unites into a closely-knit brotherhood, but it separates them sharply off from all the rest of the world.
~ Unknown
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.
~ Unknown
My comrades on the block continued to resist that authority, and I felt that I could not let college pull me away, no matter how attractive education was. These brothers had the sense of harmony and communion I needed to maintain that part of myself not totally crushed by the schools and other authorities.
~ Huey P. Newton
Christ's ideal is the ideal of a Kingdom, men banded together in a common cause, under common laws, serving the same purpose of love.
~ Hugh Black
Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
~ I. F. Stone
PROLOGUE Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! —RUDYARD KIPLING, The Ballad of East and West
~ Ian W. Toll
In the space of a couple weeks in '96, two of my partners, two of the most loyal dudes, Vic and Bruce, are both suddenly gone.
~ Unknown
Saying of the Prophet Accusations Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.
~ Idries Shah
Dicho del Profeta Quienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo
~ Idries Shah
Brotherhood" to the more civilised is connected with training and identity of interest.' Man
~ Idries Shah