Hafez al-Assad (1930–2000) former president of Syria
[Robert Fisk: Freedom, democracy and human rights in Syria, Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT, 16 September 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-freedom-democracy-and-human-rights-in-syria-2080463.html]
“Brother, brother! we are both in the wrong.”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Act II, scene ii
The Beggar's Opera (1728)
“A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
“The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
"The Poet's Vision" (1959)
“I have a brother in Bangalore. SP is my brother in Chennai.”
Rajinikanth (1950) Indian actor
On his close relationship with SP his director of his films in "When KB Interviewed Superstar! (25 October 2010)."
“My brother! You are my brother for the rest of my life!”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Gaddafi expressing his gratitude to Nicolae Ceauşescu after receiving a Romanian translation of the Koran, quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 101
“Brothers, my human brothers, force me to believe in eternal life.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) Swiss writer
Le livre de ma mère [The Book of My Mother] (1954)
“He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer.”
Maggie Stiefvater (1981) American writer
About Ronan
The Raven Cycle Series, The Dream Thieves (2013)
“Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve,—how exquisite the bliss!”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
A Winter Night.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
