Top 10 Mutual Support Quotes

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Girl, Ambition, Mutual Support

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.

Peter Kropotkin

Struggle, Men, Mutual Support

Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”, p.247, Courier Corporation

When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.

Stanley Milgram

Men, Mutual Support, Wish

"Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 121, 1974.

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Mutual Support, Choices, Mind

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.

Charles Hard Townes

Hard Work, Mutual Support, Development

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

Craig Newmark

Mutual Support, People, Doe

To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on either the policy issues or the creation of functioning democratic communities of mutual support and say, well, that's what's lacking in our country that's why we don't have a functioning democracy - a community of real participation. That's really important. And that always gets smashed.

Noam Chomsky

Country, Real, Mutual Support

"Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.

Henri Nouwen

Gratitude, Eye, Mutual Support

"Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community".

We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

Cynthia Kauffman

Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

Source: www.counterpunch.org