Social Reciprocity Quotes

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

I think this, if Hillary Clinton treats me with respect, I will treat her with respect.

People with autism aren't interested in social chit-chat.

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the host, write additional thanks and reciprocate. You needn't bring anything.

If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then surely you should be friend to my friend.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.