Christian Lous Lange Quotes

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

We are born for cooperation

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

All we have is us. Our only hope of survival is each other.

If we ... ask Nature: "Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another? We see at once that those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest. They have more chances to survive.

A single tree cannot make a forest.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

We cannot walk alone.

If we don't help each other, who will?

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.

There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We all need each other.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.