Quotes About Reciprocity

Respect is not a one way street

I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.

The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry

Vengeance is mine. I will repay.

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.

In some marriages, trying harder does not engender a reciprocal response. It has the opposite effect. It feeds the fantasy that the sole purpose of your life is to serve your husband, make him happy, and meet his every need. It feeds his belief of entitlement and his selfishness, and it solidifies his self-deception that it is indeed all about him.

She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she'd expect you to do the same for her.

Circular giving differs from reciprocal giving in several ways. First, when the gift moves in a circle no one ever receives it from the same person he gives it to. I

The gift moves in a circle, and two people do not make much of a circle. Two points establish a line, but a circle lies in a plane and needs at least three points. This

when we profit on exchange or convert 'one man's gift to another man's capital' – we nourish that part of our being (or our group) which is distinct and separate from others. Negative reciprocity strengthens the spirits – constructive or destructive – of individualism and clannishness.

that all pretensions to being self-made hide the reciprocal truth, that we have unpayable debts to the world around us, to our community, to our forebears, to the ancients, to nature, to the gods.

I, who have heaved a good many bricks myself, would be fatuous not to expect a fair number in return.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

Sometimes you are valued more when you're away than when you are in your own country.

Chauncey Starr expressed it, "We are loath to let others do unto us what we happily do to ourselves.

Bien sea de hombre a hombre, bien sea de hombre a pueblo, siempre será igualmente descabellado este discurso: Celebro contigo un contrato en el cual todos los deberes están a tu cargo y todos los beneficios están a mi favor; contrato, que respetaré mientras se me dé la gana y que tú observarás mientras se me dé la gana.

Ne veut-on pas au moins apprendre de l'objet qu'on aime si l'on est aimé ?

A right is nothing more than the other aspect of duty.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

It takes two people to make a friendship work