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Quotes About Brotherhood

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
~ William Howard Taft
I am afraid of other things, of a world that allows a travesty to exist like the one we just lived, where brother betrays brother and nothing is safe or true or right. We allowed that to happen. We gave our country away. We allowed evil to exist and to prosper.
~ Danielle Steel
They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.
~ Darren Shan
You fought for the flag and country you represented. But you really fought for the guy beside you.
~ David Baldacci
The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.
~ David Baldacci
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.
~ David Foster Wallace
Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
When you and your brother are friends, his doings are indifferent to you. When you have quarrelled, all his outgoings and incomings you know, as if you were his spy.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man.
~ William Saroyan
When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home
~ William Saroyan
From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
~ William Shakespeare
We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.
~ William Shakespeare
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother
~ William Shakespeare
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to day that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother.
~ William Shakespeare
Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul.
~ William Shakespeare
I hope they will not come upon us now. King Henry: We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.
~ William Shakespeare
For he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
~ William Shakespeare
And when white men in they hate an' wrath an' meanness fetches blood from that beautiful black skin then, oh then, my brothers, it is time not fo' laughing but fo' weeping an' rage an' lamentation! Pride!" I cried after a pause, and let my arms descend. "Pride, pride, everlasting pride, pride will make you free!
~ William Styron
William W. Johnstone
~ Unknown
Since when does brotherhood draw crowds? Has compassion ever finished first? Does doubt ever really rouse the rabble? Only hatred has just what it takes.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.
~ Woody Allen
I will make you my brothers and table companions and give you a share of all our gains. To you, Xenophon, I will give my daughter, and, if you have a daughter, I will, according to the Thracian custom, buy her from you.
~ Xenophon
All bickering would then cease, and no man would be jealous of his comrade's arms or his passion for glory. As the critical hour approached, everyone would cast away all thoughts of rivalry, and they would see their comrades for what they really were—their closest allies in the struggle for the common good. One
~ Xenophon
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
~ Yann Martel