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:
“We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named “fair competition” and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
““A man,” said Oliver Cromwell, “never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.” Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)