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Quotes About Brotherhood

Give love, and keep blood between brothers
~ Pete Townshend
The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.
~ John Ruskin
Either one of you kill him, or I will." Shade, Wraith and Kynan raised their hands to volunteer. How special. Brotherly love ran like syrup in the room.
~ Larissa Ione
The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.
~ Leon Bourgeois
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.
~ Mother Teresa
In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent.
~ Nhat Hanh
Mark was still explaining. "You see, what it does is this: it gives violence a purpose. It makes us somebody. Because we're not doing it for ourselves. We're doing it for something greater—for us. The violence is for the lads.
~ Bill Buford
Show me a man, any man, he is my brother. Show me a bigot, any bigot, he is my enemy.
~ Bill Russell
I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different than anyone. Bob Dylan - Talking WWIII Blues
~ Bob Dylan
Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you And one deserving of affection? And is our purpose not the same on this earth To love and follow his direction? ... Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore You may not see me tomorrow
~ Bob Dylan
In his classic The Outermost House, American naturalist Henry Beston writes that animals "are not brethren, they are not underlings" but beings "gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear." They are, he writes, "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
~ Sy Montgomery
His virtual home showed none of the ostentation of others in the Brotherhood, no Gothic-fortress-perched-on-impossible-cliffs or Caligulean excesses of decor (usually accompanied by an equally Caligulean want of decorum.)
~ Tad Williams
They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.
~ Tad Williams
We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.
~ Tamora Pierce
Volf welcomed Cyrion like a long-lost brother he had not seen in ten years but for whose company he had continuously pined.
~ Tanith Lee
Yo tuve un hermano no nos vimos nunca pero no importaba. Yo tuve un hermano que iba por los montes mientras yo dormía. Lo quise a mi modo le tomé su voz libre como el agua. Camine de a ratos cerca de su sombra no nos vimos nunca pero no importaba. Mi hermano despierto mientras yo dormía. Mi hermano mostrándome detrás de la noche su estrella elegida.
~ Julio Cortazar
No matter what the fuck he pulled-and my brother pulled a lot of shit-she was always a hundred percent on his side, as only a Latin mom can be with her querido oldest hijo. If he'd come home one day an said, Hey, Ma, I exterminated half the planet, I´m sure she would have defended his ass: Well, hijo, we were overpopulated.
~ Junot Diaz
When we are broken like Jesus, we are able to forgive people, truly forgive them, and desire no revenge. A good example of this is found in the life of Joseph. When his brothers came to him desperate in the time of famine, he had every reason to turn them away and let them die. But he didn't. He said, "My brothers, don't be afraid, the Lord sent me here for you" (see Genesis 45:5).
~ K.P. Yohannan
For anyone who right now is hurting, for anyone who feels beneath a baseline, feels so isolated and lonely, know that you are not alone. First and foremost, you have a God that is going to sit closer than a brother.
~ Paula White
Me and Jamie have grown up together and we work in the same industry and I quite often feel very lucky. Doing 'Stath' I look across the room and think, 'Not only is one of my best friends here, but he's also my brother.'
~ Natasia Demetriou
YBN is family. Everybody in YBN is family. Nahmir and Jay, those are really my brothers.
~ Cordae
Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
~ Yitzhak Navon
I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.
~ Joe Lhota