328 Quotes About Cooperation

If You Want To Reach An Agreement, Move From a Competitive Mindset to A Cooperative One

No tiene sentido propugnar la militancia cuando la población no está lista para ella, y para conseguir que lo esté no hay mayor secreto que el trabajo paciente. Puede resultar frustrante, si se considera que las amenazas existenciales son inminentes y muy reales, pero, en cualquier caso, se trata de etapas preliminares que no se pueden saltar.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. That is the paradox this book has tried to explain. Human beings have social instincts. They come into the world equipped with predispositions to learn how to cooperate, to discriminate the trustworthy from the treacherous, to commit themselves to be trustworthy, to earn good reputations, to exchange goods and information, and to divide labour.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.

The world is a collective dream, and we are its dreamers, hence we can change it – if we all cooperate. Nothing is more important than the realization that we can literally alter “material” reality with our minds, but we have to collaborate or we can achieve nothing. Just as the individual mind can change an individual dream effortlessly, the collective mind can effortlessly the change the collective dream, but only if minds are indeed working collectively, with common, directed intent.

The needs, tastes, aspirations and interests of mankind are neither similar nor naturally harmonious; often they are diametrically opposed and antagonistic. On the other hand, the life of each individual is so conditioned by the life of others that it would be impossible, even assuming it were convenient to do so, to isolate oneself and live one’s own life. Social solidarity is a fact from which no one can escape.

The main take-home lesson from a careful study of nomadic forager partnership societies, re-enforced by the recent Nordic experience, is that humans are capable of living in egalitarian social systems where neither dominates the other, where violence is minimized, and where prosocial cooperation and caring typify social life. This image is not a utopian fantasy but rather a set of potentials, if not inclinations, stemming from our evolutionary heritage.