Quotes About Reciprocity

Democracy demands trust. It demands that sense of mutual understanding. And - it's a two way street. You've got to give - as much as you take.

My motto is 'show respect to those who show respect to you.'

I never ever expected to meet a woman I wanted to spend my life with, let alone think I would ever admit to anyone what I was really like. You said you had nothing to give me in return for the things I do for you, but you can clearly see that wouldn't be the case.

I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

What you give away in life always comes back to you in one way or other.

it is always better when the person who frightens us is also afraid of us.

Ask for help when you need it and give help when you can

There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

We must oblige everybody as much as we can; we have often need of assistance from those inferior to ourselves.

We like better to see those on whom we confer benefits, than those from whom we receive them.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service.

Spoon goes to bowl's house; bowl never goes to spoon's house. --Haitian proverb

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

She gave the words back to him, murmuring, and kept them, too. You could do that: Give them back and keep them. "I love you" is generous that way.

To take from the universe, you must give.

Para obtener del universo, debes entregar algo a cambio

What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.

One was the rule of human nature: You get what you give. That phrase galvanized her. She'd had no idea that she had the right to give her mother only what she received from her—which was precious little.

I think you're the first person I've ever known . . . I might not say it right. We'll see . . . who really sees me. And I mean the whole thing of me, not just the part that fits with how they want to see me. And it seems weird to me, because the first person I met who really sees me for all of who I am . . . you know . . . can't see.

But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That's how it generally goes in my country." But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again.

Indebtedness is not the same thing as gratitude.

I have come to think it is a fault in us, to credit what we give in such a case, and never to consider what must be given up in order to receive it. - Bethia Mayfield

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.