Quotes About Cooperatives

#1. There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

Kent Conrad

#2. It is entirely possible to build the elements of the new system molecularly within the old. In the cooperatives, the credit unions, the peer-networks, the unmanaged enterprises and the parallel, subcultural economies, these elements already exist

Paul Mason

#3. Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital.

Pope Francis

#4. We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

Jerry Brown

#5. I have found, in over fifty years of confronting governments and defending cooperatives from political and bureaucratic interference, that when you begin demanding what is rightfully yours, there are many people even within the bureaucratic system who ensure that you retain those rights.

Verghese Kurien

#6. Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Barry Commoner

#7. Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Yoko Ono

#8. You have to really enjoy (being sexy). Not fake anything. Sexy is being in the moment, whether that means being coy or coming on hard. Faking is always lame and it never comes across the way you want it to.

Cameron Diaz

#9. William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make sure that I do him justice.

David Bradley

#10. I think we ought to leave the law exactly the way it is, the 14th amendment.

Rick Scott

#11. People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Joel Osteen

#12. Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

Wilhelm Reich

#13. If you don't like Beyonce, then it's hard for me to trust you. It's like not liking world peace.

Seinabo Sey

#14. What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Fennel Hudson