Quotes about Cooperation

In a democratic society we must live cooperatively, and serve the community in which we live, to the best of our ability. For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to rule over the earth; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.

That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. - Book VI, 54.