Jim Mattis Quotes

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.

It's one thing to talk to a vet about something, but when you're talking to a fellow rookie going through the same struggles you are, you kind of understand it - and you grow together like that.

I feel like there's a lot of sympathy and camaraderie among documentary filmmakers.

We're so bitterly divided these days, the appearance of a true 'other' might be the best chance of bringing us all together.

There is more that unites us than divides us.

You can't have empathy for somebody that's gone through something you haven't - because, definitionally, you can't. But you can feel for them and have sympathy for them. And that's what this country needs to practice more. It's about realizing that you do come from a different place.

There's a brotherhood with the specialists. There's not many of them and we don't get any respect, so we have to show a little respect for each other. We have to help each other out if we have the opportunity.

It would be tough to fight any of my teammates.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

As we form our individual opinions of our fellow man, let us base them on our similarities and not our differences.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades