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:
“Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
““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)