John Ruskin - David Halpin - Aleister Crowley - Trevor Park - Cesar Chavez - Koran 5:2 - Betrand Russell - Mahatma Gandhi - Sri Sathya Sai Baba - Albert Einstein - Steven Pinker - Jonathan Haidt - Norm Chomsky -
2,010. Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death. (Life’s Like That & Government & Cooperation & Anarchy & Competition & Death) John Ruskin, Unto this Last 1862
2,174. We should know the sanctity of life. We should cherish all children everywhere. And we compete and die, or cooperate and live and be joyful. (Life’s Like That & Children & Cooperation) David Halpin, Make War History
5,027. In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of ‘the common people’, who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights. (Equality & Democracy & Cooperation) Aleister Crowley, Moonchild
6,125. I am not interested merely in a better organised society; I am not interested merely in working capitalism more efficiently than the capitalists themselves. I am interested in a society which is based upon co-operation and not upon competition. (Society & Capitalism & Cooperation & Competition) Trevor Park, address Labour Party Conference 1958
49,281. The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating. (Industrial Action & Strike & Cooperation & Action & Dissent & Protest) Cesar Chavez
68,523. Cooperate with one another on furthering good and virtue and do not cooperate on furthering sin and aggression. Koran 5:2
68,524. The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. Bertrand Russell
68,525. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty. (Cooperation & Evil) Mahatma Gandhi
68,526. Willingness to compromise with others’ way of living and cooperation in common tasks – these make living happy and fruitful. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
68,527. Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondary on institutions such as courts of justice and police. Albert Einstein
68,528. Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. Steven Pinker
68,529. The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation – a force for construction and destruction. Jonathan Haidt
68,530. The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important. (Cooperation & Community & Solidarity) Noam Chomsky