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Mutual Help Quotes

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

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

Christian Lous Lange
Mean, Animal, Mutual Help

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

Octavio Paz
Love, Success, Mutual Help

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

Theodosius Dobzhansky
War, Mutual Help, Discipline
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1962). “Mankind Evolving: The Evolustion of the Human Species”

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. This comes about in many ways: by their lightening each other's burdens through mutual help; by constant and faithful love; by having all their possessions in common; and by the heavenly grace which flows from the sacrament.

Pope Leo XIII
Husband, Race, Mutual Help
Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.57, TAN Books

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

Pope John XXIII
Peace, Equality, 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
Mutual Help, Community, Helping
Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.144, Counterpoint Press

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

Paul Theroux
Mutual Help, Weakness, Helping

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

Walter Scott
Race, Mutual Help, Fellow Man
"Tales of My Landlord: With the Author's Last Notes and Additions and a Glossary".

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

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