George R. R. Martin Quotes

Let me tell you something about wolves, child. When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

I think, at the end of the day, that's the essence of 'The 100': 'Save your friends first.'

Loyalty, support, and 'the sisterhood' are there in spades in 'Jamestown.'

We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Life is better when you share it.

The thing is, allies is people who are friends, people you can rely on in the struggle. You're not always going to agree with your allies. For instance, Stevie Wonder I feel like is my ally when it comes to this Florida situation, but I don't agree with his strategy. That doesn't mean he isn't an ally.

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

Forsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.

That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.