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Quotes About Cooperation

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.
~ Lord Robertson
That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think.
~ Sebastian Bach
Frankly, I want to be in government with Caroline Lucas, not against her - and certainly not in permanent opposition.
~ Clive Lewis
No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.
~ Sylvie Guillem
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
~ Andrew Carnegie
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
~ Pierre Pettigrew
As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Humanity wants no more war.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Every State which breaks the equilibrium in its own favor only causes the other States to combine against it, and thereby diminishes its influence and power.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal.
~ Piotr Kropotkin
For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.
~ Plutarch
The art of wise administration consist in making certain concessions and granting that which will please the people, while demanding in return an obedience and cooperation which will benefit the whole community. p235-236
~ Plutarch
For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as of a great grievance, that it was always forced to follow, and required that it should be permitted by turns to lead the way. And taking the command accordingly, it soon inflicted , by its senseless courses, mischiefs in abundance upon itself, while the head was torn and lacerated with following, contrary to nature, a guide that was deaf and blind.
~ Plutarch
Rather than "Survival of the Fittest"—which wasn't from Charles Darwin; it was a philosopher interpreting Darwin in 1864— we might have had the opposite, "Survival of the Most Cooperative.
~ PO BRONSON
T]he best analogy for the Athenian democracy is a ship without a captain. On such a ship, the crew do their duty outstandingly well as long as fear of the open sea or the threat of a storm induces them to cooperate with one another and obey the helmsman. But when there is no cause for alarm, they start to ignore their superiors and to fall out with one another.
~ Polybius
...Men and women were created to be jointly the guarantee of the future of the humanity not only a physical guarantee, but also a moral one.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
~ Pope John (XXIII)
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
~ Pope John (XXIII)
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
~ Pope John Paul (II)
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.
~ Pope Paul VI
If you want peace, work for justice.
~ Pope Paul VI
Negeri Matahari Terbit, negeri Kaisar Meiji itu berseru pada para perantaunya, menganjurkan: Belajar berdiri sendiri! Jangan hanya jual tenaga pada siapa pun! Ubah kedudukan kuli jadi pengusaha, biar kecil seperti apa pun; tak ada modal? berserikat, bentuk modal! belajar kerja sama! bertekun dalam pekerjaan!
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer