Quotes About Reciprocity

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

The difference between human cultures and the civilizations of Highly Evolved Beings is that HEBs actually apply the law of reciprocity in their lives, rather than just giving it lip service.

Then the prayer is a prayer of thanksgiving. It is not a request at all, but a statement of gratitude for what is so.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can get away with—for the more people government helps, the more people help the government. Whom the government supports, supports the government.

You would give and share automatically, and so, there would be far fewer contracts to break, because a contract is about the exchange of goods and services, whereas your life would be about the giving of goods and services, regardless of what exchange may or may not take place. Yet in this kind of one-way giving would your salvation be found, for you would have discovered what God has experienced: that what you give to another, you give to your Self. What goes around, comes around.

My problem is with supervisors who bullshit me and expect loyalty in return. The essence of loyalty is reciprocity. If you're loyal to me, I'll be loyal to you. Bullshit me, and I'll bullshit you. That's the contract.

He searched his mind for something he could do for her to match her generosity in some small measure. "Like to go to the pictures tonight?" he said. "I see there's Cary Grant on at the Regal." Four days later he left Poole on the flying boat for Rangoon.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

The nature of men is such that they find themselves obligated as much for the benefits they confer as for those they receive.

Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that "men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.

A ju? taka natura ludzka, ?e jednakowo zobowi?zuj? ?wiadczone, jak i doznane dobrodziejstwa

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive. (p.73)

I have loved you in return, more than you will ever know.

See me just as I see you.

I don't have the answer to that, other than to observe that friendship has to flow both ways. Both of you have to be willing to invest in the friendship in order to maintain it.

She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and she hoped he had been thinking about her as well.

People who feel under-appreciated sometimes make desperate moves.

Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.