Mutual Aid

Mutual aid may refer to:

  • Mutual aid (organization theory), a tenet of organization theories.
  • Mutual aid (emergency services), an agreement between emergency responders.
  • Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, a biology book by anarchist Peter Kropotkin
  • Mutual aid, in social work with groups.
  • Mutual aid society, various organizations formed for the benefit of members.

Famous quotes containing the words mutual and/or aid:

    “Whoever takes a view of the life of man ... will find it so beset and hemm’d in with obligations of one kind or other, as to leave little room to suspect, that man can live to himself: and so closely has our creator link’d us together ... that we find this bond of mutual dependence ... is too strong to be broke.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Manners aim to facilitate life, to get rid of impediments, and bring the man pure to energize. They aid our dealing and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road, and leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)