Quote by Iain M. Banks Download Open image ““conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?”” — Iain M. Banks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand” — Aindra Das Copy Share Image
“If you can recognize competition as a destructive force instead of a sign of value, you’re already more sane than most.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."---The Princess of Intuition” — Virginia Burden Copy Share Image
“The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Our chances of survival were entirely dependent on our ability and willingness to dominate others.” — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian societies strangle the imagination without even satisfying envy.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Communiation has power. But as with any form of power, it needs to be harnessed effectively or it can all too often backfire.” — Helio Fred Garcia Copy Share Image
“It is the undeveloped mind that desires power over others. The developed mind seeks only to dominate itself!” — Alan J. Buick Copy Share Image
“There is always competition. It can be direct, or it can be indirect, and you should always be prepared with a plan to fight… — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point the way to future success. But… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.” — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Then the machine started to reel off infant-mortality rates and life-expectancy figures, sex ratios, types of diseases and their prevalence in the various strata… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“he saw that which cannot be seen; a concept; the adaptive, self-seeking urge to survive, to bend everything that can be reached to that… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Tell me, what is happiness?” “Happiness? Happiness... is to wake up, on a bright spring morning, after an exhausting first night spent with a… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
