Quotes About Reciprocity

we WEIRD ones typically practise what is known as 'strong reciprocity': we are conditional cooperators (tending to cooperate so long as others do too) but also altruistic punishers (ready to punish defectors and free riders even if it costs us personally). And it is the combination of these two traits that leads to the success of large-scale cooperation in society.

People's sense of reciprocity appears to co-evolve with their economy's structure: a fascinating finding with important implications for those aiming to rebalance the roles of the household, market, commons and state in any society.

In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

One of the reasons they had become such good friends originally was because she had not insisted he tell his sad stories to satisfy her own curiosity. The least he could do was return the favor.

Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.

and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

Selu teaches the Law of Respect, the law that helps people live in balance and harmony with nature and with each other—when you take, you have to give back.

One good turn deserves another.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

You cannot love if you have not been loved.

Love is mathematically just. — Love, and you shall be loved — all love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

Never love anything that can't love you back.

No right exists without its complementary obligation.

When riding, ask yourself, 'What will my horse get out of this if I get what I want?' Many times, human nature is to take and to not give anything back.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

Amad a quienes aman, con el fin de ser amados por ellos.

The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return.

We might suspect that this attempt to balance the books through reciprocity was just the product of civilized parenting … if it weren't for the fact that every society that's been studied, no matter how advanced or primitive, has a principle of give and take.

A hunter-gatherer familly shares what it has, whether that is information or food. To give to others is to be able to receive from others. Knowledge and food are stored, as it were, by being shared.

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