Fraternity Quotes

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Equality, Liberty, Teach

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• Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

  Tim Hetherington

  Mean, Sacrifice, Brotherhood

  "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.

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• One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Change, Sleep

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• Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

  Wilfrid

  Fusion, Unions, Absorption

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• Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

  Hjalmar Branting

  Desire, Human Nature, Humans

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Wisdom, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions

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• By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal
  respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of
  the entire human family.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Men, Dwelling, House

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• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Equality, Two, Political

  "Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination". Book by N.D. Arora, 2010.

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• You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

  Jim Palmer

  Integrity, People, Able

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• A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

  Newton D. Baker

  College, Men, Association

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• Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Equality, People, Liberty

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• Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

  Mao Zedong

  Drama, Passion, Winning

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• The real secrets of Masonry are never told, not even from mouth to ear. For the real secret of Masonry is spoken to your heart and from it to the heart of your brother. Never the language made for tongue may speak it, it is uttered only in the eye in those manifestations of that love which a man has for his friend, which passeth all other loves.

  William Howard Taft

  Brother, Real, Heart

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• A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

  E. B. White

  Ideas, Perspective, Feelings

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God', as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Blessed, Son

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• Fraternity has subtleties.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Subtlety

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 53, 2006.

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• A mysterious fraternity born out of smoke and danger of death.

  Stephen Crane

  Mysterious, Danger, Born

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• The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity.

  Albert Pike

  Rays, Pouring, Common

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Men, Important, Purpose

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.

  Lew Wasserman

  Relationship, Reality, People

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• A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Men, Liberty, Tiny

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.

  Barry Goldwater

  War, Men, Have Faith

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• Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Way, Exhaustion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.164, Modern Library

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• The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Equality, Political, Liberty

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• I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

  Ricky Gervais

  Acting, Comedy

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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