Cooperation Quotes

“One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavat)”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Two hands are better than four sometimes.

— Antonia White

“Control is violence; cooperation is friendship.”

— Bryant McGill

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Marriage is a state of antagonistic cooperation.

— Katharine Lyall Whitehorn

It takes two wings to fly.

— Baltasar Gracian

Two heads are better than one.

— Anonymous

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

— Ming-Dao Deng

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.

— Bill Hybels

We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.

— William J. Clinton

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

— Samuel P. Huntington

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

— Marcus Aurelius

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

— Deborah Tannen

Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.

— Albert Einstein

Cooperation is always more powerful than competition.

— Bob Proctor

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

— Dean Acheson

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got…

— Sarah Dunn

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

— Condoleezza Rice

U.S. has certainly been wanting this to happen since both Japan and Korea are longtime allies of the U.S. and this estranged…

— Elise Hu

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

— Michelle Alexander

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

— Lord Robertson

Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

— Ian Goldin

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's…

— John Thune

Furthermore, the situation in the North Caucasus is rather unstable. Mutual relations and the cooperation between [Vladimir] Putin and [Ramzan] Kadyrov, the…

— Garry Kasparov

I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion…

— Anonymous

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,…

— Bill Bradley

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and…

— Tim Berners-Lee

In spite of my great admiration for individual splendid talents I do not accept the star system. Collective creative effort is the…

— Constantin Stanislavski

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the…

— Hassan Rouhani

In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,' which is translated as 'the Great Order.'…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

It is clear that there are reasons for discontent in Iran - economic and political reasons. We have told the Iranian leadership…

— Sigmar Gabriel

Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children…

— Ronald Reagan

“If cooperation is the key, how come the ants and bees did not beat us to the nuclear bomb even though they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

I would like to draw attention to the fact that we have gone from pure trade [with China] in traditional goods [energy…

— Vladimir Putin

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…

— Susan Sontag

The teachings of many faiths share much in common. And people of many faiths are united in our commitments to love our…

— George W. Bush

The trade agreement which I had the privilege of signing with your Prime Minister last autumn is tangible evidence of the desire…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward…

— Vladimir Putin