Community Quote by Michael Shermer

“I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade is a system of selfishness, is not dictated by the high…

— Joshua Ferris

“Anything that binds people together into dense networks of trust makes people less selfish. In”

— Jonathan Haidt

“The bottom line is that, as human beings, we all crave belonging and connection. This only happens when trust is established and continuously cultivated.”

— Susan C. Young

“ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade…

— Ayn Rand

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity…

— Peter Singer

“People like to share with and feel connected to each other, brands, organizations, and even governments they like and trust”

— Dave Kerpen

“Humans pursuing deep, complete connections respond to quite different incentives from those that influence self-interested utility maximizers. Rewards, monitoring, and punishments are less likely…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

— Carroll Quigley

“Without constant suspicion, we can get more out of our exchanges with others while spending less time making sure that others will fulfill their…

— Dan Ariely

Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity…

— Jeremy Rifkin

“When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The emptier a person’s heart is, the more he or she needs things to buy,…

— Pope Francis

“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic…

— Tony Judt