Fellow Quotes

“I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.”
― Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape

“O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you redden your cheeks
and blacken your eyes?
Why do you remove the hair on your legs
and draw them into your brows?
Why do you hold your breath
lest your stomach show
and hold your fart
lest they know
that you’re a human? O woman,
father says natural is beautiful
so why do you straighten your hair
to curl it next
and pretend to orgasm
so they think you enjoyed the sex?
Why do you dumb yourself down
and push your breasts up?
Why do you smile when you’re told to
and love when you don’t want to?
When? When
will you stop, woman?
Father says natural is beautiful
but that is doubtful
for what does father know
he’s only a fellow.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.”
― Steven Magee

“My fellow citizens, you are a potential COVID-19 bio-hazard to me.”
― Steven Magee

“By growing entire waves of reminiscence,
I, a fellow traveler of the same period
will keep waiting for the
melody of your song
right at the same river … unbrokenly …”
― Geeta Tripathee, Simalko Geet

“During times of blatant government corruption, have compassion for your fellow citizens as we are all in this together.”
― Steven Magee

“It is important to have faith in life to connect to the fellow human beings as much as we need rational mind to understand the material world. It is unwise to drop all faiths just because faiths have been misused by some ignorant people. We have to see the positive impact of faiths and beliefs in the society and in the life of billions of people who are believers. Only by balancing our rational and faithful mind, we can find perfect life in this world.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“If you acquire, give to your fellow;
gobbling up is dishonest.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Empathy is a trembling fellow feeling, the shared moments that hold a beauteous pain and in its release is found a relatedness, an invisible family that bears an unbearable agony as a cluster of stars weep through the dark....”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee