Quotes About Cooperation

#1. I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."

Gloria Steinem

#2. If civilization is in danger today ... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.

Anatoly Kuznetsov

#3. Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Gustav Stresemann

#4. The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

Lillian Wald

#5. The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator's report card would say: Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.

Neal Stephenson

#7. One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

Arthur Henderson

#8. We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.

Charles Kennedy

#9. The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

Tran Duc Luong

#10. 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.

Leon Panetta

#11. Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Governors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lies not in hatred but in justice if not in love.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Human culture is early human cooperation writ large.

Michael Tomasello

#13. The attitude of Tao is of cooperation, not conflict. The attitude of Tao is not to be against nature but to be with it, to allow nature, to let it have its way, to cooperate with it, to go with it. The attitude of Tao is of great relaxation.

Osho

#14. The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

John Rawls

#15. Germany's fate is decided first and foremost in Europe. Reconciliation and cooperation in Europe have brought us freedom, peace and prosperity. Who would have dared to believe so much 50 years ago?

Horst Koehler

#16. No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Orison Swett Marden

#17. The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Murray Leinster

#18. the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis - embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy.

Naomi Klein

#19. What touches our hearts and impresses us deeper is sacrifice and humility, when we see someone accept the higher principle of cooperation, putting aside his/her own achievements.

Radhanath Swami

#20. Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

Benigno Aquino III

#21. We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

Bryant McGill

#22. Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

John Ruskin

#23. This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

Bill Frist

#24. As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#25. Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

Gustav Stresemann

#26. Cooperation is working together agreeably ... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.

John C. Maxwell

#27. I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they're more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.

Gabriella Mistral

#28. When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do
dog eat dog
that's what our culture is ... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.

Alice Neel

#29. Is the result of cooperation the seizing of power? Not so: cooperation mysteriously creates more power than there was before, so that the more we work together the more power we discover is available to us.

Andy Crouch

#30. There are no demands - undue demands ... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not? ... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.

Jakaya Kikwete

#31. When social cooperation is disrupted, state power is always strengthened.

Wilhelm Reich

#32. I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

Steve James

#33. Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.

John Mackey

#34. No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God.

Leo Tolstoy

#35. We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Timothy Murphy

#36. Interagency cooperation was all well and good, but it was understood to be the sport of the aristocracy; rank-and-file workers like Jacob were expected to keep to their own kind.

Robert Kroese

#37. New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

Margaret Chan

#38. Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.

Karen Hughes

#39. Language is the continuation of coercion by other means."
"Bullshit. It's cooperation." Both theories explained what had happened plausibly. I resisted, because it felt trite, saying that they weren't as contradictory as they sounded.

China Mieville

#40. You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Molly Ivins

#41. In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.

Elliott Abrams

#42. There must be a cooperation of all who believe in God, knowing that authentic religiousness - far from placing individuals and peoples in conflict with one another - rather pushes them together to build a world of peace.

Pope John Paul II

#43. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#44. I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

David Ignatius

#45. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Albert Einstein

#46. Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.

Rick Yancey

#47. Getting along with others is the essence of getting ahead, success being linked with cooperation.

William Feather

#48. I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

Paul Hoffman

#49. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca

#50. It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Joshua Redman

#51. Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

Walt Disney

#52. Success comes through the application of power, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.

Napoleon Hill

#53. there are many ignorant sentimentalists who believe that our government is deserving of our loyal cooperation and support, and that every good patriot with an innocent conscience should be glad to answer any questions from government agents. That is hogwash.

James Duane

#54. To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Arthur Holly Compton

#55. If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

E. Stanley Jones

#56. There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Bryant McGill

#57. When you approach every job enthusiastically in a spirit of friendly cooperation, you distinguish yourself from the vast majority of people.

Napoleon Hill

#58. He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

Kurt Vonnegut

#59. Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

Wen Jiabao

#60. So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

Barack Obama

#61. Could one write a strongly worded letter to the deceased requiring their full cooperation?

Alyxandra Harvey

#62. His promises do not depend for their fulfillment, upon the cooperation of the puny strength of man.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#63. As the leader of a group, your success is going to depend, not only upon yourself, but on the cooperation of every person, working with you. If they do not cooperate, you will not accomplish anything, no matter how brilliant you may prove to be.

J. Vernon Jacobs

#64. Cooperation can make you stronger. If you are strong enough to cooperate." /Loki/

Zoltan Posfai

#65. I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.

Michael Schumacher

#66. Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

Ming-Dao Deng

#67. Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

Edward O. Wilson

#68. NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

Lord Robertson

#69. Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Janine Benyus

#70. The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

Jonathan Haidt

#71. We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

Marcus Aurelius

#72. I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

Edwin Meese

#73. Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.

Bob Proctor

#74. Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.

Milton Friedman

#75. The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#76. The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions.

Peter Welch

#77. The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.

Zhang Xi

#78. We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#79. Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

Albert Einstein

#80. Exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation
not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead.

Carter G. Woodson

#81. Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."---The Princess of Intuition

Virginia Burden

#82. You'll need someone's help to get it. If people like you, they will be disposed to give you their time and their efforts. And the better the quality of rapport you have with them, the higher the level of their cooperation.

Nicholas Boothman

#83. The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

Jane Byrne

#84. It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.

Evo Morales

#85. The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.

Narendra Modi

#86. Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.

M. Stanton Evans

#87. China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

Wen Jiabao

#88. Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

Deborah Tannen

#89. If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

Edward Bernays

#90. That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversations. It's like a palm tree by the ocean that endures the greatest winds because it knows how to gracefully bend.

Stephen Kendrick

#91. We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

Deepak Chopra

#92. The result is a fragile state of political egalitarianism achieved by cooperation among creatures who are innately predisposed to hierarchical arrangements.

Jonathan Haidt

#93. Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#94. When a person feels appreciated for their infinite and absolute value, you can then communicate about any issue and you will have their cooperation and respect.

Kimberly Giles

#95. What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

Ludwig Von Mises

#96. The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation ... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

J. Edgar Hoover

#97. If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence.

David Icke

#98. I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

Klaus Schwab

#99. Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

Narendra Modi

#100. Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

Bryant H. McGill