Cooperation Quotes - Page 19

• Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.

  Eboo Patel

  Religious, Unique, Pluralism Is

  "Where Islam and America Meet". "30 Good Minutes", www.30goodminutes.org. March 11, 2007.

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• We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.

  Maureen Duffy

  Smart, Two, Blind

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• I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

  Frans de Waal

  Caring, Empathy, Intellectual

  Frans de Waal (2006). “Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are”, p.41, Penguin

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• Non-cooperation is beyond the reach of the bayonet. It has found an abiding place in the Indian heart. Workers like me will go when the hour has struck, but non-cooperation will remain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Heart, Bayonets

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• We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Teamwork, Communication, Views

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2005). “Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.17, Crown Business

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• Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Struggle, Men

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• Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Needs

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• Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Division Of Labor, Economy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Compassion, Men

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• God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be rushed... How difficult it is not to interfere, to try to take over, to go it alone. But God cannot succeed without me. God needs my whole-hearted cooperation in this work.

  Jean Royer

  Faith, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together.

  Joseph Bonanno

  Loyalty, Ties, Together

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• You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Spiritual, Forever, Humanity

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• The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our families, to protect our children, and to build a more peaceful world. In the coming year, let us resolve to seize opportunities to work together in a spirit of friendship and cooperation. Through our combined efforts, we can end terrorism and rid our civilization of the damaging effects of hatred and intolerance, ultimately achieving a brighter future for all.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Teaching, Inspiration

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• I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.

  Cordell Hull

  Suicide, Race, Law

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• Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Ideas, Perspective, Advice

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• If we open up to our vitality and to the sense of urgency that flows within us ... we will have the pleasure of experiencing ourselves living and working in cooperation with the deepest forces of life.

  Rick Jarow

  Vitality, Flow, Pleasure

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• The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.

  Gary Zukav

  Choices, Soul, Survival

  "We Can Do Better Than Attack Syria" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 16, 2013.

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• When we refused to be forced out of Berlin, we demonstrated to the people of Europe that with their cooperation we would act, and act resolutely, when their freedom was threatened.

  Harry S. Truman

  Military, Europe, People

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope”, p.164, New Word City

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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Selfish

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.75, RosettaBooks

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• Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Keys, Long

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What does not benefit the hive is no benefit to the bee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Doe, Benefits, Bees

  Marcus Aurelius (2009). “Meditations”, p.43, Everyman's Library

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• The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no opportunity to experience its satisfactions or its possibilities, and who regard cooperative work in large teams as the normal thing. It is a natural corollary for them to feel that the objectives of these large teams must be something of large social significance.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Growing Up, Team, Opportunity

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• Surely the mitochondrion that first entered another cell was not thinking about the future benefits of cooperation and integration; it was merely trying to make its own living in a tough Darwinian world

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Future, Science, Thinking

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.310, W. W. Norton & Company

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