Quotes About Reciprocity

Just don't plan on hugs every time I see you." "The feeling's mutual.

One of the most powerful shocks of the Middle Passage is the collapse of our tacit contract with the universe–the assumption that if we act correctly, if we are of good heart and good intentions, things will work out. We assume a reciprocity with the universe. If we do our part, the universe will comply. Many ancient stories, including the Book of Job, painfully reveal the fact that there is no such contract, and everyone who goes through the Middle Passage is made aware of it.

Fair's fair. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a candy for a candy, a penny for your thoughts.

The paradox of genius exposes us directly to the dynamic of open reciprocity, for if you are the genius of what you say to me, I am the genius of what I hear you say. What you say originally I can hear only originally. As you surrender the sound on your lips, I surrender the sound in my ear. Each of us has relinquished to the other what has been relinquished to the other.

For them, the Golden Rule was not something learned in Sunday school. The principle of "do unto others what you would have them do unto you" was nothing more and nothing less than a key to survival.

When we decide what to do, we in effect proclaim our wish that our conduct be made into a "universal law." Therefore when a rational being decides to treat people in a certain way he decrees that in his judgement, this is the way people ought to be treated. Thus if we treat him the same way in return we are doing nothing more than treating him as he has decided people are to be treated.

Hermetic principle often associated with the Knights Templar: As above, so below.

An effective network is not a unidirectional conduit of benefits; it thrives on mutual exchange and support.

The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.

We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.

I showed you your face in the mirror. It was not only the face of one who loves, but the face of one whose love is returned.

isn't it sometimes more expensive to accept favours than it is to buy them?" He

And if you want to pop off for a quick one yourself later on," said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return.

A true lover must know how to receive as well as to give.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

Women, Mademoiselle, are generous. If they can render a service to one who has rendered a service to them, they will do it. I was generous once to you, Mademoiselle. When I might have spoken, I held my tongue.

There is always an upload for a download.

Do unto others much worse than than they'll ever do unto you and you'll never get hurt ever again" -James "Buck" Bukowitz

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and evil for evil.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

marveled at how two souls - two completely different species - could make each other so happy. If you were kind to animals, they repaid that kindness a thousandfold. People disappointed; animals never did.

Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.' W.H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939', 1940