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"Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine."
"However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species."
"The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood."
"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."
"'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'."
"Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions."
"There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir"
"What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis."
"We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man."
"For a better, happier, more stable and civilized future, each of us must develop a sincere, warm-hearted feeling of brotherhood and sisterhood."
"What the Muslim Brotherhood said in the explanatory memorandum that was discovered during the Holy Land Foundation Trial was that, "they will take advantage of our PC attitude to get us"."
"The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men."
"We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit."
"I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name."
"The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all."
"The history of religions, of which Christianity is a transcendent element, awaits the deepest study. It requires Bibles to free from Bibles. Comparative theology is the best of studies for liberating one's mind from geographical and traditional limitations. Like travelling, it shows the globe in its varying climates and zones, its latitude and longitude of intelligence. When the races shall have learned each other's language, the significance of things to thoughts, one faith becomes universal, one brotherhood."
"A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood."
"Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial."
"The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness."
"All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration."
