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Quotes About Cooperation

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.
~ Arthur C. Clarke, Sunstorm
Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM
~ Geoffrey Thorne
You can only rise so far by climbing on others' shoulders, you know.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
we both smile and we are conspirators.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.
~ Urie Bronfenbrenner
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.
~ Jacque Fresco
The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.
~ Herbert Spencer
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest
~ Thabo Mbeki
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
~ Milton Friedman
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
~ Hillary Clinton
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.
~ Francois-Noel Babeuf
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
~ Kofi Annan
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.
~ Delphine de Girardin
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
~ Jane Addams
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
~ Charles W. Pickering
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
~ Murray Bookchin
Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.
~ David Schmidtz
A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not.
~ Jonathan Sacks
When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.
~ Jean Vanier
If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
~ Cyndi Lauper
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
~ Will Durant
Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi