"Obedience may have its uses, but it..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy.”
More on Cooperation
“Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't.”
“Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.”
“Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.”