Mutual Help Quotes

• 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

  Life, Power, Men

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

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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

  Walter Scott

  Race, Fellow Man, Helping

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

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

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  War, Discipline, Survival

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

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

  Paul Theroux

  Weakness, Helping, Failing

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

  Octavio Paz

  Love, Success, Succeed

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• 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

  Community, Helping, Economy

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.144, Counterpoint Press

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• 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

  Respect, Fear, Hate

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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

  Pope John XXIII

  Peace, Equality, Arms

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

  Christian Lous Lange

  Mean, Animal, Important

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• 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

  Inspiration, Home, Ambition

  O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.10, Penguin

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• 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, Wife

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

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• 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

  Mind, Different, Borders

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

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