Brotherly Love Quotes

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Mis-define the law of brotherly love by giving men a claim on their neighbors and you have destroyed freedom, justified despotism, and assumed that there can be a master mind, in an ordinary human being, as the mind of God.

~ Frederick Nymeyer

They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a time when it was easy to doubt such humanity still existed. If the terrorists had hoped their attacks would reveal the weaknesses in western society, the events in Gander proved its strength.

~ Jim Defede

You are my brother. You are my sister. We are one human family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.

~ T.f. Hodge

Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit.

~ Jim Defede

May we love each other with brotherly love. Love cast out all fears.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the greatest gift, we can give to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!

~ Jeff Byington

If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers.

~ Auliq Ice

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

~ Chinua Achebe

Their willingness to help others is arguably the single most important trait that defines them as Newfoundlanders. Today, it is an identity they cling to, in part, because it is something that cannot be taken away from them.

~ Jim Defede

Why?” I asked him tiredly. “What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would have made a difference?”“That I was your brother, Harry,” he said. “That I loved you. That I knew a few things about denying the dark parts of your nature. And that we would get through it.” He put his elblows on his knees and rested his forehead on his hands. “That we’d figure it out. That you weren’t alone.” Stab.Twist.He was right. It was just that simple.

~ Jim Butcher

Percy: “You asked Poseidon for… me?” Tyson: For a friend, young cyclopes grow up alone on the streets, learns to make things out of scraps. Learn to survive. Percy: “But that’s so cruel!” Tyson: “Makes us appreciate blessings, not be greedy and mean and fat like Polyphemus. But I got scared. Monsters chased me so much, clawed me sometimes-- Percy: “The scars on your back?” Tyson: “Sphinx on Seventy-second Street. Big Bully. I prayed to Daddy for help. Soon the people at Meriwether found me. Mey you. Biggest blessing ever. Sorry I said Poseidon was mean. He sent me a brother.

~ Rick Riordan

We couldn’t have done it without somebody else! We couldn’t have won this race or got the Fleece or saved Grover or anything! We owe our lives to Tyson, Percy’s…’‘Brother!’ I said, loud enough for everybody to hear. ‘Tyson, my baby brother.’Tyson blushed. The crowd cheered. Annabeth planted a kiss on my cheek.

~ Rick Riordan

He remembered running through the streets of Alicante with Tavvy in his arms, stumbling on the cracked paving. trying to keep his little brother's face mashed against his shoulder so that he wouldn't see the blood and death all around him.

~ Cassandra Clare

A man's heart does not love like a woman's, Lorelei. Logren would lay down and die if he thought his death would save your life because you are his sister, but his tongue is not so easily guided by his brother's heart.

~ Jennifer Melzer