Quotes About Cooperation

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.

We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

My own rhetoric is not so 'us versus them.' I don't like fighting.

At the end of the day it's 11 men versus 11 on the pitch.

We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

Houston's been getting flooded for a very long time. We always have to prepare for disasters and we have to do this in a very bipartisan way.

Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.

My job, as I've said, is to break down sectionalism, vested interests and a fixed mindset of merely following precedents, so that I'm not subjected to the harmful effects of factions.

Veterans are one area where Republicans and Democrats have made progress together.

I could work with anybody. This is why we need more veterans in Congress.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

I always wanted a family environment, a community where a creator like myself could connect and vibe with other creators without feeling competitive.

The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.

Sometimes you're with a producer who just makes beats and you can kinda do your thing to whatever beats they come up with. But sometimes you get with a producer who really produces you and the music together, not just the beat then you can kinda throw in your ideas and vibe off each other.

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.