Cooperatives Quotes

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

— Eckhart Tolle

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

— Frans de Waal

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

— Fannie Lou Hamer

There's a wonderfully cooperative relationship between management and labor right now. Much like the historic partnership between oranges and a juicer.

— Stephen Colbert

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses…

— Tsunesaburo Makiguchi

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.

— Bill Mollison

We cannot leap into world government through one quick step… The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult,…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver…

— Edward Dahlberg

At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they…

— Walter Lippmann

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which…

— John Dewey

The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different…

— Richard D. Wolff

The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and…

— Noam Chomsky

In the last generation we've moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part,…

— Alan Bersin

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so…

— Gary North

Non-cooperative approaches, by contrast, almost always involve duplication of effort, since someone working independently must spend time and skills on problems that…

— Alfie Kohn

It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a…

— Hilary Kornblith

It's a group of men - Conor included - everyone is so collaborative and cooperative, kind, considerate, very professional. And they know…

— Sean Mahon

The Universe is circles within circles, and everything is one circle, and all the circles are connected to each other. Each family…

— Black Elk

The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it…

— Donald Judd

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

— Don Young

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

— Susan Faludi

Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of…

— Jonathan Haidt

If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

— Scott Kim

My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

— Gerald R. Ford

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Frederick Lenz

Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate…

— Jim Nollman

If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society…

— Marshall Field

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement…

— Kofi Annan

Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such…

— Junichiro Koizumi

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's…

— Jane Fonda

Women will not advance except by joining together in cooperative action… Unlike other groups, women do not need to set affiliation and…

— Jean Baker Miller

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level…

— Carroll Quigley

Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as…

— Warder Clyde Allee

There's some good news, too, and the good news is that the players [finally] have become more aware of the fact that…

— Arnold Palmer