Cooperation quotes
131 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions."
"Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg."
"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness."
"The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress."
"We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through."
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"One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof."
"No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people."
"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."
"We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws."
"The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation."
"I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good."
"We need cooperation based on trust and self-confidence to create an open, compassionate, harmonious society."
"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."
"Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action."
"Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living."
"We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality."
"We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life."
"The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts."
"Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow."
"We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation."
"What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation."
"We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation."
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others."
"Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty."
"Total nonviolent non-cooperation has no place in popular Raj, whatever its level may be."
