Brotherly Quotes:

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

topic: Brotherly Love, Embrace, Brotherly

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

- Rick Warren

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

topic: Kindness, Firsts, Brotherly

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

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Feelings, Brotherly, Shows, Comrade

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

- Marc Brown

topic: Brother, Superhero, Sometimes, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

- Frank Moore Colby

source: Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

topic: Love, Tolerance, Apathy, Personal Interest, Brotherly Love

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Funny, Brother, Grandma, Brothers And Sisters, Mother And Grandmother

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

- Hesiod

topic: Brother, Sibling, Companionship, Older Brother, Brothers And Sisters

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

- Barbara Deming

source: Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

topic: Men, Brotherhood, Trying, Brotherly

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

- Jimmy Rushing

topic: Way, Brotherly Love, Used, Brotherly

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.87, Psychology Press

topic: Hippie, Mean, Mass Destruction, Brotherly Love, Brotherly

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

- Edwin Markham

source: EDWIN MARKHAM (1901). “LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Boomerang

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

- Harmon Killebrew

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

topic: Family, Mother, Fathers Day, Inspirational Father, Step Dad

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Inspirational, Girl, Wedding, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then beyond the other, no one's happiness would be increased

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.77, Routledge

topic: Football, Team, Two, Brotherly Love, Brotherly

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Love, Deeds, Neighbor, Brotherly

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Brother, Blessed, Sick, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

- Milan Kundera

source: Milan Kundera (1983). “The Joke”, Viking Press

topic: People, Feelings, Common, Baseness, Brotherly

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Little Brother, My Siblings

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

- Cyril Cusack

topic: Acting, World, Sisterly, Brotherly

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply...

- Jane Austen

topic: Sister, Children, Mean, Mansfield Park, Brothers And Sisters

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

- Antisthenes

topic: Strong, Brother, Common, Inspirational Brother And Sister, Little Brother

It takes two men to make one brother.

- Israel Zangwill

source: Israel Zangwill (1917). “The Principle of Nationalities”

topic: Brother, Men, Two, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

- Unknown

topic: Friendship, Sister, Brother, My Siblings, Brotherly Love

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

- Dylan Thomas

topic: Christmas, Brother, Healing, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.

- Daniel Pearce

topic: Brother, Men, Two, Inspirational Brother And Sister, My Siblings

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

- James Boswell

source: James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74

topic: Brother, Envy, Degrees, Brothers And Sisters, Two Sisters

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

topic: Sister, Brother, Sibling, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

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

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Say Anything, Brothers And Sisters, Inspirational Brother And Sister

Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

- Ali Abdullah Saleh

topic: Brother, Ties, Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Brotherly

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

- Graham Greene

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

topic: Love, Peace, Years, Brotherly Love, Cuckoo Clocks

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

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Responsibility, Brotherly Love, Accepting, Brotherly

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

topic: Men, Roots, Good Man, Filial, Brotherly Love

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.

topic: Inspirational, Brother, Yoga, Equal Rights, Civil Rights Movement

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

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

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Alps, Italian Renaissance

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

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

topic: Stars, Heart, Dark, Benign, Dark Sky

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Love, Inspirational, Peace, Inspirational Healing, Love And Healing

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.

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

topic: Christian, Jesus, Teaching, Golden Rule, Brotherly Love

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

- Matthew Henry

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

topic: Love Is, Brotherly Love, Christ, Brotherly

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

- Matthew Henry

topic: Christian, Love Is, Brotherly Love, Very True, Brotherly

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

topic: Nice, Years, Two, Thousand Years, Brotherly

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

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Unity, Trying, Deities, Brotherly Love, Brotherly

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

topic: Hands, Volunteer, Special, Wraith, Brotherly

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

- Erich Fromm

source: Source: www.scribd.com

topic: Religious, Principles, Brotherly Love, Love And Freedom, Brotherly

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Weakness, Principles, Fellowship, Brotherly Love, Brotherly

Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Love, Uplifting, Powerful, Crimea, Brotherly

We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.

- Mary Boykin Chesnut

topic: War, Hate, Hero, Starks, Remnants

Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together to support basically a dark vision that the world is kind of a dump. And we all have to find our ways of surviving in it and of making it a better place. It's a world where we don't have much help, other than what we bring to the table. It's a world in which brotherly love counts more than anything else.

- David Small

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Philosophy, Character, Dark, Brotherly Love, Brotherly

I was in Philadelphia - a very angry town, Philadelphia. I've never seen a town like this. It's supposed to be the City of Brotherly Love - like when my brother was 12 and I was nine, and he would lean on my shoulder and dangle spit in my face.

- Andy Kindler

topic: Brother, Cities, Philadelphia, Brotherly Love, Brotherly