Cooperation Quotes - Page 11

• I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.

  Richard E. Byrd

  White, Hopeful, Shining

  Statement made during International Geophysical Year (IGY) operations in 1957, inscribed on the Byrd Memorial at McMurdo Station, Antartica, 1957.

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• Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

  Philip K. Howard

  Law, Opposites, Ideas

  Philip K. Howard (2011). “The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America”, p.183, Random House

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• I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.

  Karl Hess

  Daughter, Mother, Order

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• I think that it is a fallacy to suppose that helpful cooperation in the future will be assured by the attempted compulsion of an inflexible rule. Rather will such cooperation depend upon the fostering of firm friendships springing from an appreciation of community ideals, interests, and purposes, and such friendships are more likely to be promoted by freedom of conference than by the effort to create hard and fast engagements.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Appreciation, Thinking, Effort

  "Autobiographical Notes of Charles Hughes". Book edited by D. J. Danelski and J. S. Tulchin, 1973.

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• Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding around the globe – to forge greater cooperation, to expand new markets, to free people from fear and want. And no one is better positioned to take advantage of those opportunities than America.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, America, People

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• 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

  Differences, Justice, Long

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

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• Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

  John Ashcroft

  Real, Hydra, Monsters

  "Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice". Book by John Ashcroft, 2006.

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• Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights.

  Samuel Alito

  Country, College, Rights

  Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, 130 S. Ct. 2971, 3015-16, 2010.

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• The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.

  Jean Piaget

  Thinking, Needs, Speak

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Book, Opportunity

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.3, Vintage

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• We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response.

  Sam Nunn

  Race, Threat, Response

  "Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction". Panel Discussion, www.belfercenter.org. June 27, 2005.

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• 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

  People, Effort, Tears

  Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Heart, Thinking, Order

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2002). “Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future”, p.37, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

  Jonathan Haidt

  Atheist, Practice, Faces

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• President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members.

  James E. Faust

  Strong, Leader, Challenges

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• Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.

  Muriel Fox

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

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• If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.

  Carl Eckart

  People, Plans, Comprehensive

  Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

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• 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

  Understanding, Why Not, Agendas

  During President Hu Jintao's visit to Tanzania, February 16, 2009.

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• The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

  Neelie Kroes

  Agreement, Aviation, Framework

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• All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Groups, Coercion, Intimate

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.183, Library of America

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• ...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.

  John Blacking

  Music, Spring, Creativity

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• Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the teachings of his parents, his brothers, sisters, playmates, and later of other people FORCE HIM to acknowledge the advantages of social cooperation and accordingly to change his behavior.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Brother, Children, Teaching

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• Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

  Vandana Shiva

  Compassion, Circles, People

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.11, Zed Books

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development.

  Rosalie Bertell

  Air, Water, Focus

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