Cooperatives Quotes

• The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Enthusiastic, Joyous

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• When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, Acting, Venture

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• Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Team, Men, Games

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• Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Real, Men

  "Pope Francis Rails Against ‘Throwaway Culture’ Of Globalization" by James MacKenzie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2015.

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• Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Mean, Creating, Hands

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• Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.

  Kofi Annan

  Self, Order, Entrepreneur

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• At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Responsibility, Heart

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.

  Buddhadasa

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Reflection

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• A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Keys, Decision, Arriving

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
  split asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Odds, Challenges

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

  Kofi Annan

  Community, Society, Age

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• Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

  Barry Nalebuff

  Business, Creating Value, Process

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• You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.

  George Lucas

  Law, Choices, Forever

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

  Barry Commoner

  Planets

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• To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Skills, Creative

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• In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Important, Way

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.

  Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

  Weakness, Able, Individual

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• We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

  Jerry Brown

  Community, Cooperation, Deals

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• If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Hard Work, People, Wish

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• The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.

  John Dewey

  Self, Expression, Community

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• I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

  Frances Fox Piven

  People, Groups, Cooperation

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• Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

  Tom Shadyac

  Simple, Incredibles, Dies

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Children, Successful, Average

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Party, Men

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