Quotes About Reciprocity

If one gives little, one receives little. If one gives much, one receives much.

It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it. -Shikamaru Nara

Nobody ever saw a dog make fair and deliberate exchange of a bone with another dog.

Fundamentally, other animals do not do barter.

So – as animal experiments have suggested – oxytocin does not affect reciprocity, just the tendency to take a social risk, to go out on a limb.

Richard Dawkins that 'money is a formal token of delayed reciprocal altruism' –

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And that's what a man is. Somebody that won't go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

One other person can go a long way towards making your world right," she said, "but the support has to run both ways.

in my experience, one of the guiding principles of human relations is "what have you done for me lately"—but it was something, a small antidote against the potential poison of his professional affiliations.

Treat me well, and I'll treat you better. Treat me badly, and I'll treat you worse.

law of retaliation, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is "interwoven with injustice," since, as Ptolemy points out, "the one who is second to act unjustly still acts unjustly, differing only in the relative order in which he acts, and committing the very same act

Borrowing strength builds weakness

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.

Do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you.

Mediante el intercambio voluntario, las personas benefician a otras beneficiándose a sí mismas; como él decía: «No esperamos conseguir nuestra cena por la benevolencia del carnicero, el cervecero o el panadero, sino porque ellos velan por sus propios intereses. No apelamos a su humanidad, sino a su amor propio».

Controversies remain over the details, but today no biologist doubts that evolutionary dynamics like mutualism, kinship, and various forms of reciprocity can select for psychological faculties that, under the right circumstances, can lead people to coexist peacefully.4

You have to give love to get love.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.

Quadratic reciprocity is the song of love in the land of prime numbers.