Cooperatives Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image “Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cooperatives Credit Given Humanity Inspirational Nature of man
In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It's when we challenge ourselves to walk in the… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think there's some evidence that we're empathic by nature. There is some evidence from studies of babies and young children that they resonate… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
I certainly know I have been blessed with much more empathy than I ever knew I would feel for other people. — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can imagine people actually working in virtual environments where productive, cooperative work is undertaken, and I think we will find people helping others… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
The president [Barack Obama] decided to leave more troops than he had originally planned in Afghanistan. We have a very cooperative government there, with… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The only way to change American society, and indeed I think this is true of other societies as well, is for people to discover… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The entire cosmos is a cooperative. The sun, the moon, and the stars live together as a cooperative. The same is true for humans… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image