Brotherhood Quotes

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.

The world has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone succeed.

Do I see crowds of men hastening to extinguish a fire? I see not merely uncouth garbs, and fantastic flickering lights, of lurid hue, like a trampling troop of gnomes -but straightway my mind is filled with thoughts about mutual helpfulness, human sympathy, the common bond of brotherhood, and the mysteriously deep foundations on which […]

We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain.

We need to neutralize the aggression that wells up within us – often, strangely enough, against those who have the most in common with us. To understand all is to forgive all, and to know one another well enough, we should not hate one another but love one another.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.

While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.