Quotes About Cooperation

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories. Under the right circumstances myths can change rapidly.

Members of a coalition spend more time together, share food, and help one another in times of trouble.

Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour to rapidly changing challenges.

Los pocos milenios que separan la revolución agrícola de la aparición de ciudades, reinos e imperios no fueron suficientes para permitir la evolución de un instinto de cooperación en masa.

In a one-on-one brawl, a Neanderthal would probably have beaten a Sapiens. But in a conflict of hundreds, Neanderthals wouldn't stand a chance. Neanderthals could share information about the whereabouts of lions, but they probably could not tell – and revise – stories about tribal spirits. Without an ability to compose fiction, Neanderthals were unable to cooperate effectively in large numbers, nor could they adapt their social behaviour to rapidly changing challenges.

The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any

Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages. Rather, they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectively. Bear in mind, though, that Hammurabi might have defended his principle of hierarchy using the same logic: 'I know that superiors, commoners and slaves are not inherently different kinds of people. But if we believe that they are, it will enable us to create a stable and prosperous society.

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories.

Human power depends on mass cooperation, and mass cooperation depends on manufacturing mass identities—and all mass identities are based on fictional stories, not on scientific facts or even on economic necessities.

Merchants, conquerors and prophets were the first people who managed to transcend the binary evolutionary division, 'us vs them', and to foresee the potential unity of humankind. For

a) Convertibilidad universal: con el dinero como alquimista, se puede convertir la tierra en lealtad, la justicia en salud y la violencia en conocimiento. b) Confianza universal: con el dinero como intermediario, cualesquiera dos personas pueden cooperar en cualquier proyecto.

she has carried this sacred sense of community building into

Humanity is about raising up each other for good."

The ultimate objective of American policy should be benign and visionary: to shape a truly cooperative global community, in

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

We communists are like seeds and the people are the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

Individuals score points, but teams win games. This is true in athletic events and in life. If you make it in life, your "team" of parents, teachers, ministers, etc., will have played a major role in your success.

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

No one can ever win by defeating someone; you only win by letting someone win.

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourselves.