Mutual Help Quotes:

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

- Paul Theroux

topic: Mutual Help, Weakness, Helping

Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

- Doris Lessing

source: Doris Lessing (2012). “Shikasta (Canopus in Argos: Archives Series, Book 1)”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

topic: Mutual Help, Mind, Different

Mankind — the race would perish did they cease to aid each other.

- Walter Scott

source: "Tales of My Landlord: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions and a Glossary".

topic: Race, Mutual Help, Fellow Man, Philanthropic

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

- Walter Scott

topic: Life, Power, Men, Philanthropic, Mutual Help

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

- Rollo May

topic: Inspirational, Life, Sympathy, Mutual Understanding, Mutual Help

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

- Theodosius Dobzhansky

source: Theodosius Dobzhansky (1962). “Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species”

topic: War, Discipline, May, Mutual Help, Survival Of The Fittest

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Love, Success, Succeed, Mutual Help

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Community, Helping, Economy, Mutual Help

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Respect, Fear, Hate, Military Industrial Complex, Mutual Help

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

- Pope John XXIII

topic: Peace, Equality, Arms, Mutual Help, Mutual Trust

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

- Christian Lous Lange

topic: Mean, Animal, Important, Mutual Help

But the best, in my opinion, was the home life in the little flat--the ardent, voluble chats after the day's study; the cozy dinners and fresh, light breakfasts; the interchange of ambitions--ambitions interwoven each with the other's or else inconsiderable--the mutual help and inspiration; and--overlook my artlessness--stuffed olives and cheese sandwiches at 11 p.m.

- O. Henry

topic: Inspiration, Ambition, Home, Interchange, Mutual Help

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

- Pope Leo XIII

topic: Husband, Race, Wife, Mutual Help, Faithful Love