Title of story about the incest taboo and social pathologies in the anthology Dangerous Visions (1967) by Harlan Ellison.
Sermon preached at Mill-hill Chapel, Leeds on 28th August 1870.
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman
Source: An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism (1889), p. 32
Source: 1950s, Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954), p. 47
Context: Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
“Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.”
The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).
Other works
“We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this.”
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this. So this was the teaching, but how do you teach it? As young people, John Lennon, George Harrison, myself, Carlos Santana and other spiritual seekers in pop music, we wanted to know the answer but we found a question: How do you convince the rest of the western world that they are ill, they are mentally ill, that they have a sickness and that they have lost the way? How do you teach that? You cannot teach that in the normal sense. You have to encourage a spiritual call, so we devoted ourselves to making songs which would have a spiritual call inside of them, hoping to awaken an awareness with this music. And other people in the arts felt the same...
“Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.”
Address to Fiji Week celebrations, 7 October 2005 (excerpts)
