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Quotes About Mutual aid

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
~ Philip Greenspun
They will carry us over the finishing line every so often, and well carry them over the line other times. Its a mutual respect at the moment.
~ Phil Brown
under any circumstances sociability is the greatest advantage in the struggle for life.
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
As seen from the above, the war of each against all is not the law of nature. Mutual aid is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle, and that law will become still more apparent when we have analyzed some other associations of birds and those
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The other men helped, and Montag helped, and there, in the wilderness, the men all moved their hands, putting out the fire together.
~ Ray Bradbury
One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.
~ Joseph Heller
la caridad, la generosidad, la valentía, son avenidas de dos vías.
~ Daniel Torres
The building is rather like a medieval Castle and was established in the Sixth Century and soon afterwards, as the Moslem armies advanced Westwards from the Arabian Peninsula, somebody had the prescience to build a small Mosque in its courtyard to guard against it being burned or demolished. At the time of the Crusades it was the turn of the Monastery to protect the Mosque, and so it has been down the ages, each House of God extending its shelter to the other as opposing armies came and went.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
At large in disaster are two populations: a great majority that tends toward altruism and mutual aid and a minority whose callousness and self-interest often become a second disaster.
~ Rebecca Solnit
it's okay to realize that we do need help, that calling out for help is a very generous act because it allows others to help us and it allows us to be helped. Sometimes we're calling out for help.
~ Rebecca Solnit
No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.
~ Mr Hudson
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
~ Pythagoras
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.
~ Herbert Croly
Two men spit in their hands, help each other out, then laugh about it later. Just to be silly.
~ Jim Norton
What we give to our community in pennies, our communities give back to us in dollars.
~ David Brooks
Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. "And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.
~ David Graeber
If mutual aid, social co-operation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others are the kind of things that really go to make civilizations, then this true history of civilization is only just starting to be written.
~ David Graeber
When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
~ Jacob Hacker
Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.
~ Walter Scott
The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.
~ Kris Carr
everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help
~ Jay Woodman