Co Operation Quotes

“We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.”
― Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change

“With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Socialism' should not be taken to mean merely subordinating the economy to the needs and values of society. It also involves the creation, as an effect of ever shorter and increasingly flexible working hours, of a growing sphere of sharing within the community, of voluntary and self-organized co-operation, of increasingly extensive self-determined activities.”
― André Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

“Aboriginal Okinawan Karate was traditionally taught in modest home Dojos, in small informal groups (sole purpose of teachings revolved around life preservation), in A closely tied supportive environment; unlike main island modern Japanese version with rivalry and competition, instructed in large groups belonging to even larger organizations with pseudo-militaristic hierarchy”
― Soke Behzad Ahmadi

“People working together can overcome many obstacles, often within themselves, and by doing so can make the world a better place.”
― Mo Mowlam, Momentum: The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People

“You have to get safe and know how to work together with your system of selves before you can work on the memories with all the details and all the feelings. Even then it’s not just letting it all hang out. It’s a long slow process that is designed to overwhelm you as little as possible. We can discuss it in depth at a later time. Right now, your situation reminds me of a bunch of folks on a big sailboat that’s taking on water. No one knows where the life vests are, or how to put them on. Half the crew is below decks refusing to come out, and the other half is fighting with each other. Then someone says, ‘Ooh there’s a hurricane, let’s sail into that!’ Doesn’t sound likely that the ship and the crew are going to do very well there, does it? Sometimes, even if you’re not prepared, a hurricane hits, but that’s different from deliberately sailing into one.
‘The first thing is that everyone needs to work on working together, getting safe from harm to yourselves and others. I really believe, from everything you’ve all said, that you’ve all been hurt enough. You don’t need any more harm coming to any of you or your body. You don’t have to like everyone, love everyone, or even trust everyone inside. It’s just a matter of seeing how you can begin to risk to work together.”
― Richard J. Loewenstein

“The malignancy of divisiveness, given the chance to creep deeper, would rot us. You need to truly consider that your neighbor's beliefs are as valid as yours and not disparage or impair those beliefs.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Into the West

“Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world.”
― Eknath Easwaran, Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life

“To each their own. Skills used unselfishly make for co-operation.”
― Robert Holdstock, Mythago Wood

“The solution — the only possible one — consists in the producer receiving the full value of his product, or its equivalent. This involves the termination of capitalist production for profit, and the organization of cooperative social production for use.”
― Alexander Berkman

“This is our mammalian conflict – what to give to the others, and what to keep for yourself. Trading that line, keeping the others in check, and being kept in check by them, is what we call morality.”
― Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

“There's no reason any single business needs to own the entire town. A town with one restaurant only draws a certain number of people.”
― Sharon Rowe, The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don't Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living