Cooperation Quote by Milton Friedman

I think that all moralities adequately serving the function of fostering social cooperation must contain a norm of reciprocity - a norm of returning…

— David Wong

“Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition.”

— Bryant McGill

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

— Mark Skousen

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

— Plutarch

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that…

— George Eliot

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

“Force is a physical power; I do not see how its effects could produce morality. To yield to force is an act of necessity,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“when the highest virtues of mankind cannot be accomplished fully through voluntary actions, the greater good demands that the government compel people to do…

— S.W. Southwick

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

— Ayn Rand

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell