Quotes About Mutual aid

When times are easy and there's plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep life going forward. In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival.

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

I loaned him the first money he invested in it and I helped him all along.

We must help to the limits of our strength. And we will.

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

Don't forget Kropotkin!

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

DJ can stay here and help Mabel with the fire." "I don't need any damned help with the fire," Mabel said with irritation. "I'm sure you don't," DJ said soothingly, then grinned and added, "but I bet between the two of us, we can make it burn hotter.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

The earliest and most basic definition of community—of tribe—would be the group of people that you would both help feed and help defend.

I'll go and help. (Chris) What are we supposed to do with you, Chris? Lob you at them? (Wulf)

What are we here for if not to make life easier for each other?

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found among ants, monkeys & ruminants. Impossible, recalcitrant domestics weren't yet in his view or anyone else's.

Nobody becomes or remains good in isolation. We have to help one another grow.

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other.

I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked there needed help, we would try to help them, and at the same token if the company needed help from people, they would help us. A kind of give and take.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as perhaps you think it is. T. E. LAWRENCE, ADVICE TO BRITISH OFFICERS, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ARTICLES, AUGUST 1917

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it's dependent upon those who stand beside you.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

When we carry a safety net made of cash, we allow the one made of community to slip through our fingers.

Men will find that they can prepare with mutual aid far more easily what they need, and avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides, by united forces.