We cannot weigh our brother with ourself. Great men may jest with saints: ’tis wit in them, But in less, foul profanation. (Measure for Measure)
Brotherhood Quotes
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree.
Those who nobly set out to be their brother’s keeper sometimes end up becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
The answer to the question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” must always be “No! I am my brother’s brother.”
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
I believe a man is born first unto himself – for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are […]
To feel that others, equally with ourselves, are members of the human race is the most difficult of arts. The idea of equality, as an idea, is easy to accept, but it is hard to translate into an emotion.
