Jonathan Haidt Quotes

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Trade is a social act.

No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it, he must serve it too.

The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

One hand washes the other.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Every man lives by exchanging.

A little reciprocity goes a long way.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

If you want it, you've got to give it.

Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

Integration is a give and take.

I never wanted something from somebody without being able to kind of reciprocate, I guess.