Quotes About Reciprocity

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He gave a life for a life," Kono said. "There is nothing more honorable." * * *

But perhaps, in a world "older and more complete" than ours, there is a love that does not demand a reciprocal debt of need.

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding—when we're done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn't me.

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.

God made man in His own image, but man has certainly paid Him back again.

to be seen as someone who deserves to be happy.

Hysteria involves a relationship — one cannot be a hysteric on one's own. It always engages the other, inducing a reciprocity or a refusal. If the other refuses to participate in the free flow of mutual identification (the folie a deux), then the hysteric demands to be a spectacle only something one can look at or observe.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

In seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence. One grins, trying to bear the pain of being seen. But not just anyone can be someone who only looks. If the one who is looked at looks back, then the person who was looking becomes the one who is looked at.

Why not amuse yourselves at our expense? Asia returns the compliment.

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.

You invest in someone based on how much they invest in you.

Rudy Vallee, conductor of the Connecticut Yankees dance orchestra if the 1930's was heart to sing; "My Time is Your Time

Are there any Fair Trade Laws applicable in the exchange of 'An Eye for an Eye' and a 'Tooth for a Tooth'?

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

How can one know when he is stabilized in love? First, he is able to pour out his love upon others without demanding reciprocation. He can love without being loved. Second, he can meet recurrences of rejection with forgiveness. He will not react wrongly by anger, resentment or self-pity. Be

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

Nobody does good to man with impunity.

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.

Al ser parte del tejido de la naturaleza, constantemente sopesamos nuestros intereses con los de otros organismos, casi siempre a favor de los nuestros.

They would herd the large whale into shallow waters close to a whaling vessel, allowing the whalers to harpoon the harassed leviathan. Once the whale was killed, the orcas would be given one day to consume their preferred delicacy—its tongue and lips—after which the whalers would collect their prize. Here too humans gave names to their preferred orca partners and recognized the tit-for-tat that is the foundation of all cooperation, human as well as animal.45