Molly goes tiptoeing through the tulips once more, or
Quotes on cooperation:
Every once in awhile the humans, lazy apes that they are, don't clean the litter boxes to Molly's satisfaction. Who do they think they are ? If God hadn't intended them to open cat food cans and clean litter boxes he wouldn't have given them opposable thumbs.
So here we go again, out to the Quote Garden, so that Molly can do what a cats gotta do. Here are a few of the flowers she dragged back this time. Anarchists generally believe that humans have a natural heritable propensity for cooperation, and that authority isn't needed because of this talent. So...on cooperation:
A. "A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together."
- Author Unknown
B."In union there is strength."
-Aesop (yep, it's true. That's where it came from)
C."No member of a crew is every praised for the rugged individualism of his rowing."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
D."Some of us are not as smart as all of us."
-Ken Blanchard
E."Cooperation is the thoroughgoing conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there."
-Virginia Burden
F."Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success."
-Author Unknown

Survival of the Fittest Quotes:
More Well Evolved Flowers From 'The Quote Garden':
In light of the previous item on this blog here are a few items that have won the struggle for existence:
A. "Evolution is individual- devolution is collective."
-Martin H. Fischer
B. "We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin."
-Charles Darwin in 'The Descent of Man'
C. "That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness."
-Antonio Porchia in 'Voces, 1943'
D. "Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings."
-Author Unknown
E. "A simple and irrefutable argument to knock creationism on its ass: 1)Humans are a mistake-subproof:opposable thumbs and enlarged brain capacity are the combined number one factor in the increasingly speedy destruction of our planet. 2)God doesn't make mistakes. 3)Therefore God couldn't have created people."
-Cassus Garrulitas

And here are a couple from Frans de Waal himself:
a)De Waal's Law: People such as primatologists and zookeepers who work on a daily basis with apes, always have a high opinion of apes' intelligence and abilities. Those who attempt to minimize apes' language abilities and cognitive skills are always people with little or no first-hand experience with apes.
b)The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

Love the last one,
Molly

More Flowers From 'The Quote Garden':
a)" Many laws as certainly make bad men as bad men make many laws."
-Walter Savage Lander
Imaginary Conversations
b)"Justice is open to everyone in the same way as the Ritz Hotel"
-Justice Sturgess
c)"People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made"
-Chancellor Otto Von Bismark
d)"When you go to court you are putting your fate in the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty"
-Noam Crosby

To be continued until I get bored.
Molly

New Links and Statistics:
I've added a few new links to this blog. Two of them are anarchist blogs, 'Presto's Ramblings' and 'To the Barricades'. Well worth checking out. Also in the 'Other Interesting Links' section is the 'Institute for Local Self Reliance'. This is an organization that, since 1974, has been promoting technologies,economics and political initiatives around the concept of not just "sustainable" but, more importantly, "local" alternatives to the present system. They have a wealth of publications that are well worth looking at.
As to statistics, here are a few quotes from 'The Quote Garden' (http://www.quotegarden.com ), soon to be added to the links.
"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything"
-Gregg Easterbrook
"98% of statistics are made up"
-Author unknown
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital"
-Aaron Levenstein
"Statistics can be made to prove anything, even the truth"
-Author unknown
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable"
-Author unknown
"Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches"
-W.I.E. Gates
"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up"
-Rex Stout
"The average human being has one breast and one testicle"
-Des McHale
And then the inevitable political clinchers:
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic"
-Good Ol' Uncle Joe Stalin to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945
Finally, not from 'The Quote Garden', and said by Churchill at a totally different time,
even though it would have stood as the "great rejoiner of history" if it had been said in reply:
"The only statistics you can trust are those you have falsified yourself"
-Winston Churchill
That's it for now. More fun with quotations later.
Molly.