Quotes About Cooperation

They would herd the large whale into shallow waters close to a whaling vessel, allowing the whalers to harpoon the harassed leviathan. Once the whale was killed, the orcas would be given one day to consume their preferred delicacy—its tongue and lips—after which the whalers would collect their prize. Here too humans gave names to their preferred orca partners and recognized the tit-for-tat that is the foundation of all cooperation, human as well as animal.45

Value networks are needed to succeed within a field. That's why we form them. And that is, as you may have guessed, where all the trouble starts.

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

La solidaridad, o es total o no existe. Es un sentimiento que no sabe de ahorro.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

Some folks always have good neighbors. Others always complain about having bad neighbors. I guess it is the people themselves more than the neighbors that are at fault. pg 32

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

The only way to remove permanently the risk of ultimate catastrophe is to abolish war altogether. War must cease to be an admissible social institution. We must learn to resolve our disputes by means other than military confrontation.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." —EDMUND BURKE

Regardless, I often wish that the two groups - adults and kids - could find a way to get along better. Some sort of treaty or something. The biggest problem is, the adults have one of the most effective recruitment strategies in the world. Give them enough time, and they'll turn any kid into one of them.

What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?

Funny, how quickly someone can stop calling you a miscreant and a rogue when they want your help

We lift the bridge together, Teft," Kaladin said. "And we carry it.

We either learn together or we fall individually.

All life worked in concert, he'd been taught in his youth. Everything but men, who refused their place. Who destroyed instead of added.

Perhaps, unlike you, not all people are accustomed to turning every single item in their lives into a competition," M-Bot said. "Oh, come on," I said. "I'm not that bad." "I recorded you trying to get Kimmalyn to have a tooth-brushing contest the other night in the barracks." "Just a little fun," I said. "Besides, gotta kill that plaque good and dead.

What would it be like if every nation—from the isles in the South to the Terris hills in the North—were united under a single government? What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together? It is too much, I suppose, to even hope for. A single, unified empire of man? It could never happen.

I know the second oath I am to make. I don't need to be told it. I will unite instead of divide, Stormfather. I will bring men together