Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui Quotes

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

States working together can achieve more than what even the most powerful state can accomplish by itself.

It is ... difficult to induce a number of free beings to co-operate for their mutual benefit.

On-line communities would form with people selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.

Every man cannot have his way in all things…Without this mutual disposition, we are disjointed individuals, but not a society

The great and overriding role of all alliances must be that of reciprocal interest.

I believe that the more this hemisphere operates with a sense of common purpose, I think the better we'll all do.

I focus a lot more on the collective than the individual.

As we know, lots of people working together to solve problems doesn't happen often enough, particularly here in Washington.

By collaborating, you can do very interesting things.

It is a community of purpose that constitutes society.

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

A portion of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by common sympathies which do not exist between them and any others—which make them co-operate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to be under the same government, and desire that it should be government by themselves or a portion of themselves exclusively.

In modern societies, all things, even in the military department of affairs, are decided, not by individual effort, but by the combined operations of numbers;

I lose faith in any cooperative, commonwealth; cannot see how, after all, there will be incentives.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself.

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

We talk about "rugged individualism" and "personal liberty." My dear friends, both of those disappeared from the earth the day the first colony of cave men held a conference around a community fire.

I just like to work with other people, and I like things that are kind of a little bit bigger than that. I don't know. I just feel like a solo record just kind of gives me the willies a little bit.