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:

    I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
    Salvador Minuchin (20th century)

    Frustrate a Frenchman, he will drink himself to death; an Irishman, he will die of angry hypertension; a Dane, he will shoot himself; an American, he will get drunk, shoot you, then establish a million dollar aid program for your relatives. Then he will die of an ulcer.
    —Stanley Rudin. The New York Times (August 22, 1963)