Quotes About Cooperation

the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee used to advise against the 'fundamental fallacy' of believing that 'it is possible by the elaboration of machinery to escape the necessity of trusting one's fellow human beings'.10

When people purposefully withhold meaning from one another, individually smart people can do collectively stupid things.

It'th high time we tried getting Anabel on board with uth," said Grayson with his mouth so full that I could hardly make out what he was saying. I moved Lottie's leek and bacon tart out of his reach. "Sorry, I don't speak greedyguts-ish," I said as Grayson grunted in protest.

When two beings want the same thing, they can communicate. And when two beings want the same thing that neither can attain on their own, they can connect. A want held in common weaves life into one network, a worldwide web of feeling.

Playing in an orchestra is completely different to playing on my own. Sometimes I played, sometimes listened; instead of waiting my turn, I sometimes interrupted another player, sometimes I argued, sometimes agreed. My flute is my mouthpiece and I felt as if I was actually joining in a conversation.

The secret of TIT FOR TAT's success lay as much in its ruthless dark side as it did in its default sunny side; in the fact that when the going got tough it was able to step up to the plate and mix it with the best of them.

We must think beyond ourselves

In the Network Era—that age we have just entered—dense communication is creating artificial worlds ripe for emergent coevolution, spontaneous self-organization, and win-win cooperation. In this Era, openness wins, central control is lost, and stability is a state of perpetual almost-falling ensured by constant error.

If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go further, go together.

Under what conditions will cooperation emerge in a world of egoists without central authority?

As far as they were concerned, if the U.S. government did not extinguish its debt, there would always be public creditors. Those creditors, who would come from among the wealthiest Americans, would support the U.S. government. The Union would thus be cemented. Madison cooperated closely with Hamilton and

We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism.

To me, socialism was just common sense.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Our people, guided by the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, have been strengthening international solidarity and developing the relations of friendship and cooperation with the peoples of all countries who aspire to independence; they have been effecting multilateral exchange with all the countries that are friendly towards ours, on the principles of equality and mutual benefit.

Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another. Admitting this to ourselves isn't an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness, it's a liberation from our misconceptions.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes the meal.

They did not need to be close friends to work together. But they need to trust each other

Peace is born of mutual understanding