Quotes About Cooperation

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The Army is the Indian's best friend.

the politicians have inherited the stone age syndrome of the tribal chieftains, who take for granted that they can rule their people only by making them hate and fight all other tribes," Alfvén continued. "If we have the choice of being governed by problem generating trouble makers, or by problem solvers, every sensible man of course would prefer the latter.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

It would be interesting to imagine the outcome if all Indians had cooperated and rallied against the Europeans. But that was impossible. The continent was vast and the Indians knew the place where they lived and the immediate neighboring nations, but they did not know places far away. They did not all speak the same language or worship the same gods. And like people everywhere, they feared each other more than they feared the new stranger.

It is mankind that has survived, not any one man. The fitness includes and depends on social organization, cooperation.

By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the world's most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.

In a breath he halted by my side. "I lied. I need your help." "Who are we killing?

I bloody hated bodyguard detail. On regular jobs, I had to depend only on myself. But bodyguard detail was a couple's kind of dance. You had to work with the body you guarded, and in my experience, bodies proved uncooperative.

Felix, how do you know when Hugh wants you to do something?" "He tells me," Felix said. "Ah!" She clapped her hands together. "He tells you. Imagine that. So you are able to communicate with actual words rather than grunts and snarls.

Who cares about dates? It's when you're under pressure together, that's what counts.

Volunteering was for suckers, and he wouldn't get any information out of me unless it was absolutely necessary.

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Individual men and even entire peoples give little thought to the fact that while each according to this own ways pursues his own ends—often at cross purposes with each other—they unconsciously proceed toward an unknown natural end, as if following a guiding thread; and they work to promote an end they would set little store by, even if they were aware of it.

You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also

We make concessions. To get along with others. To make life go more smoothly. Even when we'd rather not." "But that's when life begins to lose some of its shine, don't you think?

Once and for all, we have decided to side with the many.

The Solarians have given up something mankind has had for a million years; something worth more than atomic power, cities, agriculture, tools, fire, everything; because it's something that made everything possible (...) The tribe, sir. Cooperation between individuals.

if we look forward to a future in which mankind behaves rationally and avoids self-destruction, we can visualize a world that will be more complicated than the one we know today, but a world that will run better and, most of all, a world in which the individual will count for more, not less.

Without the interplay of human against human, the chief interest in life is gone; most of the intellectual values are gone; most of the reason for living is gone.

They brought the plan through, because they loved the greater Plan.

Now tell me, where was the need for violence?