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:
“Nature’s law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature’s ways to bind you to the earth.”
—Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986)