Quotes About Cooperation

I'll be my own man and work closely with a Tory Government if it is in London's interest.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

The use of computers and other mobile devices has to be so carefully controlled. As we discovered with 'Dream School' rather awkwardly, it can become a source of total disruption that destroys the co-operative learning experience.

Americans have always prized individuality - it is part of our national DNA - but America is a community that draws strength from the sum of our people and has always known that the total of that sum is worth far more than its individual parts.

There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.

Politics — I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

They had to join together. It was that or go crazy.

John Cole, the keel of my boat. Thomas the oars and the sails.

If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

The most alarming rhetoric comes out of the dispute between liberals and conservatives, and it's a dangerous waste of time because they're both right. ... If you want to make a society work, then you don't keep underscoring the places where you're different—you underscore your shared humanity

One hand washes the other.

One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet)

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

El bien común y el bien particular solo confluyen en muy contadas ocasiones

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

my enemy's enemy is my friend.

Elizabeth and Darcy laughed at the sight, and for a moment, resolved to keep walking -- as the zombies had failed to take notice of them. But, sharing a glance and a smile, the pair realised they had stumbled onto their first opportunity to fight side by side. And so they did.

Something mystical can happen in the course of acting together that transcends words and ideologies—people who do not agree on ideas can create common ground in the act of loving.

That's the beautiful mystery: we have a God who chooses to need us. We have a God who doesn't want to change the world without us. We have a God who longs to cooperate with us, to allow us to fail and flounder and who promises to make up for our shortcomings, but nonetheless wants us.

W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP, wrote, "Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph.