#comradeship

Men can, of course, be stirred into life by being dressed up in uniforms and made to blare out chants of war. It must be confessed that this is one way for men to break bread with comrades and to find what they are seeking, which is a sense of something universal, of self-fulfillment. But of this bread men die. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#militarism #self-fulfillment #men

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat! ↗

— Harry Pollitt

#capitalists #comradeship #country #defeat #effort

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#friendship #friendship

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them. ↗

— Elizabeth Alder

#comradeship #friendship #people #friendship

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#love #love

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ↗

— Mark Twain

#living #values

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#capable #comradeship #each #enter #foundation

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#been #besides #boarding #boarding school #both

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

#complex #comradeship #intellectual #make #obscure

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power