Quotes About Cooperation

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

Racial strength is vital; politics is luxury. If the white race is ever seriously threatened, it may then be time for us to take our part in its protection, to fight side by side with the English, French and Germans, but not with one against the other for our mutual destruction.

Collaboration leads us to and grounds us in sufficiency.

Her gifts are not a threat to yours, in fact, because we are all on the same team, her gifts and joys are a win for you.

The tension exists because you are doing the difficult work of no longer cooperating with dysfunction.

Those who cooperate most fully with forgiveness are those who dance most freely in the beauty of redemption.

Forgiveness isn't an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.

What we can do now to bring about his kingdom of justice is to cooperate in the establishment of justice in that portion of his kingdom over which we have some immediate control: ourselves. Let us begin the pursuit of justice and peace by cleaning up our own lives and establishing peace within our own hearts.

Monks realize well that when the consciousness of one person is raised, the whole of humanity is raised; when the quality of life of one improves, all improve. Or, to put it in another, more biblical, way, the increased health and vitality of any one cell vitalizes the whole Body of Christ. 38

Competition and cooperation may seem antithetical," he says, "but at some very deep level, they are two sides of the same coin.

It will require the renunciation or sublimation or transformation of our traditional appetites: to outbreed, outconsume, and conquer our rivals, especially our rivals in other tribes. These impulses may once have been adaptive. Indeed, they may even be hard-wired into our brains. But we no longer have the luxury of tolerating them. And

a successful communication] we now define concisely as 'cooperative modeling'—cooperation in the construction, maintenance, and use of a model.

Great things are brought about and burdens are lightened through the efforts of many hands "anxiously engaged in a good cause.

Cooperation in about half of the participant pools remained at the initial level, and the higher the level of antisocial punishment in a participant pool, the lower was the rate of increase in cooperation. At best, "altruistic punishment" did not help people to cooperate very much. This seemed to me to capture something of the flavor of real life.

migration undermines cooperation.

Living, breathing creatures did not require a life force, or vital essence, to evolve but an extraordinary level of cooperation between molecules.

If punishment is typically used in the context of repeated dealings where people know who has punished whom, then it is difficult to draw conclusions from an experiment where punishment occurs anonymously. If we want to understand human behavior and the interplay between cooperation and punishment, we need to study situations where the players encounter each other again and again.

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

The purpose of foreign policy is to influence the policies and actions of other nations in a way that serves your interests and values. The tools available include everything from kind words to cruise missiles. Mixing them properly and with sufficient patience is the art of diplomacy.

I fear a return to the international climate that prevailed in the 1920s and '30s, when the United States withdrew from the global stage and countries everywhere pursued what they perceived to be their own interests without regard to larger and more enduring goals.

Zeman a BabiÅ¡ jsou spojenci. PÃ…â"¢eji své zemi vÅ¡echno dobré.

More broadly, it is vital for leaders to work across international boundaries to minimize the number of people who feel the need to leave their home countries in the first place.

Trump's view of life as a wilderness of Darwinian dogfights doesn't correspond to the intricately interdependent world in which we must frequently join forces if we are to make the best of our lot.