Brotherly Quotes - Page 2

• Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

  Graham Greene

  Love, Peace, Years

  Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

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• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  Garrison Keillor

  Inspirational, Brother, Sibling

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• We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Brotherly Love, Accepting

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• A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

  Confucius

  Men, Roots, Good Man

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• And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

  Albert Camus

  Stars, Heart, Dark

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.54, Hamilton Books

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Principles, Brotherly Love

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Unity, Trying, Deities

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I first start with weep with those who weep, rejoice with those who rejoice, be sympathetic, show tenderness and brotherly kindness.

  Rick Warren

  Kindness, Firsts, Sympathetic

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven’t seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Years, Two

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• It isn't those who always addressing each other as comrade who necessarily show the most brotherly feelings.

  Harold MacMillan

  Feelings, Shows, Comrade

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• 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

  Hands, Volunteer, Special

  Larissa Ione (2010). “Ecstasy Unveiled”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Love Is, Brotherly Love

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• Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

  Matthew Henry

  Love Is, Brotherly Love, Christ

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.639

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• We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Jesus, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.110, Univ of California Press

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• The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Weakness, Principles, Fellowship

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• Out of a brotherly love we occasionally embrace this or that somebody (because we cannot embrace everybody): but we must never letour somebody know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brotherly Love, Embrace, Knows

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• There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.

  John Maus

  Christian, Pain, Romantic Love

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

  Dervla Murphy

  Brotherly Love, Gang, Shia

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.70, The Overlook Press

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• Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes to his disciples, however it may appear to be founded on an attachment to Him and zeal for His service, is in truth a departure from the religion of Him, "the Son of Man," who "came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them.

  Richard Mant

  Son, Men, Departure

  Richard Mant (1828). “Biographical Notices of the Apostles, Evangelists and Other Saints: With Reflexions and Collects : Adapted to the Minor Festivals of the United Church of England and Ireland”, p.396

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• Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.

  Edward Hoagland

  Parent, One Day, Days Off

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