Quotes About Cooperation

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

Unlike in capitalist society where every realm of social life is based on individualism, a socialist society is a collective society where all the people work together sharing a common goal and common interests.

Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible to believe, as apparently you did, that when fear and want went away, bad deeds would too. Humanity would be revealed as some kind of bonobo, an altruistic cooperator, a lover of all.

I consider my novels, amongst many other things, to be my political activism. I'm interested in portraying futures where there are more cooperative, altruistic, post-capitalist systems that are working well.

Self-reliance my ass. We're fucking monkeys. It's always about teamwork.

A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It's like a software program that we use to cope with the world and get along with each other, and one of the most effective we have ever invented, because we are all in this together. When you realize that acting with justice and generosity turns out to be the most effective technology for dealing with other people, that's a good thing.

the way like-minded people working to solve the same problem will engage in continuous civil war with each other over methods, thus destroying their chances of success.

Autosuficiencia. Y un huevo. Somos putos monos. La clave siempre ha sido el trabajo en equipo.

Another man said I don't own my kids' teacher, I don't own my doctor, I don't need to own my house. I just want to pay the collective for it, not some landlord.

When we traded places, I could only lead for a couple hundred yards before slowing to a snail's pace. Sinking thigh deep made for exhausting work. Terry would take back the lead without comment. Following him, I stepped exactly in his deep snowshoe prints, feeling relief at how much easier things became when the trail was broken.

And besides we were like wolves! We turned wolves into dogs and they turned us into humans— we were something like orangutans before, solitaries who didn't know how to work together, it was the wolves who taught us that, who taught us the idea of friendship and cooperation

Abstract, conclusion; abstract, conclusion. Female brown capuchin monkeys throw things if they see other monkeys getting more than they got from an equivalent exchange. Aversion to inequity therefore probably very deep-rooted, evolutionarily. Sense of fairness evolved. Thus cooperative groups, long before hominids. Monkey ethics; interesting.

He saw that they were all working together at the first step of the species' break from the home world, and he understood that if the first step were taken successfully, with balance, they could run from star to star all across the night.

Quickly, and working together, they

Det måtte gjøres med makt å holde hende tilbake, å sætte hende ned, kysse hende. Det var forresten ikke vanskelig, hun var liten og rund og ikke så værst urimelig, tilslut hjalp hun til.

Often, just as when they were children, it was four against one when some argument came up. At least they no longer sat on him to force him to submit to their wishes.

and the Lion, he said to the Woodman, and the bees cannot sting them. This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion

There exists no "invisible hand"—that was always an unfortunate turn of phrase—but billions of highly visible fingers, doing, purely for personal gain, what others will freely barter for, with the sole object of improving their lives and those of their children.

The trouble with two partners having separate sets of mortal enemies is that said enemies don't always make distinctions.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America.

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

U.S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U.S. and this estranged relationship has prevented better cooperation.

This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia.