Quotes About Cooperation

Hierarchical male groups are good at mustering on the street and running into gunfire--another important task--but terrible at creating alliances.

Group projects are the exception in school, but they should be the norm.

If everyone tries to lead all the time, not much happens.

You don't have to fuck people over to survive.

Don't be difficult." That was the wrong thing to say.

Our can-do culture has made many of us believe that we should always be self-sufficient. Somewhere along the way, we also got the message that asking for help is a sign of weakness. We often forget that we're interdependent creatures whose very existence depends on the kindness of others, including—with a bow to Tennessee Williams—strangers.

I'm sponsoring you to have the best life you can, and you're sponsoring me. We are co-sponsors. We regard our time together as a collaborative effort to make life better for each of us.

a continuing tension between power and authority: power was dependent upon organizing cooperation, enlisting the generality of human and material resources in society, while authority claimed to derive from sources said to be rare or special—from Holy Scripture, from God

The ideal of a democratic political culture was about cooperating in the care of common arrangements, of practices in which, potentially, all could share in deciding the uses of power while bearing responsibility for their consequences.

If democracy is about participating in self-government, its first requirement is a supportive culture, a complex of beliefs, values, and practices that nurture equality, cooperation, and freedom. A rarely discussed but crucial need of a self-governing society is that the members and those they elect to office tell the truth.

Kadang sebuah kelompok kurang cerdas dibanding seorang individu. Lihat saja orang-orang: satu persatu mereka bisa sangat pintar, tapi gabungkan mereka dalam satu kelompok yang tidak terorganisir bisa menimbulkan huru-hara, terutama jika ada insiden yang menghasut. Di lain kesempatan sebuah kelompok menunjukkan perilaku yang lebih pintar daripada seorang individu, seperti yang terjadi di sini dengan para semuat atau sekawanan lebah.

Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against the starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

Are we just going to stand here taking pot shots at each other? Or can we focus our collective ADD on getting us off this shit hole? (Devyn)

So are we going to continue glaring angrily at each other while we pose in our tough stances? Or use our time to work out a plan that hopefully doesn't end with our mutual deaths? (Acheron)

When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

Perhaps I should sit up front with the driver and give you two enough space to beat the crap out of each other and settle this like grown adolescents. (Geary)

Acheron: Yeah well, I don't like talking about myself and I despise personal questions. Tory: Fine. All I want is that brain of yours for a few

We shouldn't piss them off, explained Frankie, because who knows what they'll do now that they've united.

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.

The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.