Quotes About Cooperation

But you're right that all of us, Catholics, Arabs, Jews, have got to work out some sensible pattern of life for the world, or new alignments will occur so radical that no one here can visualize

It has been usual for men to think and to say, Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves. The truth is that oppressor and slave are co-operators in ignorance, and, while seeming to afflict each other, are in reality afflicting themselves.

Mother Theresa said if everyone swept in front of their house then the end result would be a clean world.

The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else make a good living.

Ask them a question like, 'Do you want this project to fail?' or 'Is this situation not going to work out for either side?'" They don't want to fail, so they will say "no." Now you can start to find common ground.

If we—and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others—do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

quando in una famiglia c'erano più lavoratori che membri non lavoratori, la famiglia riduceva lo sforzo lavorativo complessivo una volta assicurata la produzione sufficiente.

In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally.

Is it not true that men of good faith put aside what divides them in order to emphasize what brings them together?

There must not and cannot be any conflict, estrangement or misunderstanding between the Chinese people and America. —Mao Zedong

if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?

Cognitive neuroscience, and social theorists from Weber to Bourdieu, have recognized that humans act, most of the time, habitually, not reflectively. Both at intrastate and inter-states levels, habits play critical roles in mitigating uncertainty, providing a sense of order, and entrench patterns of cooperation or enmity.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

I am convinced that the better you know your mate off the pitch, the more you are able to work for him on it in uncomfortable situations.

I feel like directorial teams aren't quite as uncommon in documentary.

The U.K.'s relationship with the U.S. has proved strong enough over time to bear the weight of honest disagreement. It does not require unconditional support where our interests or judgements differ.

Never underestimate or mock peace.

When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do.

Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.