Cooperatives Quotes

• When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Peace, Acting, Venture

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• The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Enthusiastic, Joyous

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• 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

  Life, Real, Men

  "Pope Francis Rails Against ‘Throwaway Culture’ Of Globalization" by James MacKenzie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2015.

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• Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Mean, Creating, Hands

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• Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Team, Men, Games

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• At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Responsibility, Heart

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Reflection

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• In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide.

  Kofi Annan

  Community, Society, Age

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• In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Important, Way

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and
  split asunder.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Odds, Challenges

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

  Barry Nalebuff

  Business, Creating Value, Process

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• The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, Party, Men

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• I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

  Frances Fox Piven

  People, Groups, Cooperation

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• If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Hard Work, People, Wish

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• The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover the power latent in the cooperative roles that they play in a range of institutions.

  Frances Fox Piven

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity, yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation.

  Germaine Greer

  Thinking, Opposites, Ideas

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• The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans and animals, trees, and the Earth. When we realize that the world is a mutual, interdependent, cooperative enterprise -- then we can build a noble environment. If our lives are not based on this truth, then we shall perish.

  Buddhadasa

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

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• In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

  May Sarton

  Balance, Action, Compromise

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• A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Real, Confusing

  Penelope Leach (1989). “Your baby & child: from birth to age five”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. It's also that the philosophers are well-versed in the relevant empirical data, and the scientists are well-versed in the more abstract issues which are typically the central focus of philosophical work.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophical, Data, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Lying, Age

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• Anytime we think the problem is 'out there,' that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us. The change paradigm is 'outside-in' - what's out there has to change before we can change.  The proactive approach is to change from the 'inside-out': to be different, and by being different, to effect positive change in what's out there - I can be more resourceful, I can be more diligent, I can be more creative, I can be more cooperative.

  Stephen Covey

  Thinking, Empowering, Creative

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• [On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Men, Land, Giving

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• From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.

  Ella Baker

  Long, People, League

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Knights, Texas

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