For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), The Legion
“There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.”
Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress (1981), Chapter 4, Reason, p. 119
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Source: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), pp. vii - viii
Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. VIII.
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.
Variant: Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.
Source: Magician: Apprentice
“While some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.”
To the Memory of Norwent, Paragraph 5; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
Attributed to Russell in Prochnow's Speakers Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 132
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