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Quotes About Cooperation

It takes both sides to build a bridge.
~ Fredrik Nael
We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!
~ Jeff Byington, Zero and One
By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check on the powers of the governmental sector and an effective protection of freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought.
~ Milton Friedman
Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange will take place unless both parties do benefit.
~ Milton Friedman
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise.
~ Milton Friedman
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise. The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
~ Milton Friedman
The hardest thing in the world to understand is that people operating separately, through their joint relations with one another, through market transactions, can achieve a greater degree of efficiency and of output than can a single central planner.
~ Milton Friedman
Without us, the harvest would not ripen in the fields; without our millstones the corn would not turn to flour; nor the flour to bread by stirring and baking. Let us then cooperate with nature in its mineral as well as in its agricultural labours, and treasures will be opened to all. Alchemy, we shall see, takes its place in the same spiritual category: the Alchemist takes up and perfects the work of Nature, while at the same time working to 'make' himself.
~ Mircea Eliade
Be compassionate ... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
~ Mitch Albom
Loyalty ruled this woman's soul, but loyalty needs a partner.
~ Mitch Albom
Be compassionate," Morrie whispered. "And take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much better a place.
~ Mitch Albom
But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music.
~ Mitch Albom
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?" His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well.
~ Mitch Albom
In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right? His voice dropped to a whisper. But here's the secret : in between, we need others as well .
~ Mitch Albom
Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death? Eddie shrugged. Better, she said, to be loyal to one another.
~ Mitch Albom
The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Who ever saw one physician approve of another 's prescription, without taking something away, or adding something to it?
~ Montaigne
Make tea, not war.
~ Monty Python
I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.
~ Myles Horton
When you win the child wins, when you lose you both lose.
~ Nancy L. Thomas
From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the us, not the I. For that is true love, is it not?
~ Nancy Werlin
the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis—embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy.
~ Naomi Klein
I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape
~ Naomi Novik