Quotes about brotherhood

"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all."

Broun, Heywood on brotherhood   

"There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper."

Hoffer, Eric on brotherhood   

"Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on brotherhood   

"The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same."

Huxley, Aldous on brotherhood   

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on brotherhood
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

King Jr. Martin Luther on brotherhood
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"The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn."

Laing, R. D. on brotherhood   

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."

Lerner, Max on brotherhood   

"To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization."

Lincoln, Abraham on brotherhood   

"I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment."

Malcolm X on brotherhood   

"The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood."

Markham, Edwin on brotherhood   

"There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own."

Markham, Edwin on brotherhood   

"When man to man shall be friend and brother."

Massey, Gerald on brotherhood   

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."

Pope Paul VI on brotherhood   

"Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival."

Romulo, Carlos Pena on brotherhood   

"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother."

Saying, Indian on brotherhood   

"We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger."

Schweitzer, Albert on brotherhood   

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on brotherhood   

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

Washington, Booker T. on brotherhood   

"The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory."

Williams, Tennessee on brotherhood   

"The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one."

Carlyle, Thomas on brotherhood