Reciprocity Quotes

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

One who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate

I think politicians and movie actors … are similar in more ways than they’re different. There is an egocentric quality about both; there is a very sensitive awareness of the public attitude, because you live or die on public favor or disfavor. There is the desire for publicity and for acclaim, because, again, that’s part of your life... And in a strange and bizarre way, when movie actors come to Washington, they’re absolutely fascinated by the politicians. And when the politicians go to Hollywood, they’re absolutely fascinated by the movie stars. It’s a kind of reciprocity of affection by people who both recognize in a sense they’re in the same racket.

No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.

The young people ... must recognize that they will get from their country tomorrow what they give her today.

Never give less to your ally than your opponent is giving to that ally.

An eye for any eye makes the whole world blind.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

Blood neither frays or is eaten by worms: Generation upon generation will seek revenge.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

You give before you get.

Service without reward is punishment.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.

There is no injustice without justice coming after, just as there is no night not followed by day.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Besides, it's the first gift that's always the hardest to pay back. I wouldn't even have been here to do it if you hadn't helped me then.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something.

If a friend asks a favor, you should grant it if it is reasonable; if not, tell him plainly why you cannot: You will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.