G o l d e n R u l e s
From The Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
Edited and Compiled by Frank S. Mead
© Frank S Mead 1965
Note: * denotes addition by me.

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. --- Judaism: Talmud, Shabbat, 31a

That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself. --- Zoroastrianism: Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you. --- Brahmanism: Mahabharata, 5:1517

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. --- Buddhism: Udana-Varga 5:18

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. --- Confucianism: Analects 15:23

Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. --- Taoism: T'ai Shang Kan Ying P'ien

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets. --- Christianity: Matthew 7:12

No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. --- Islam: Sunnah

*In that it harm none, do as ye will. --- Wicca/Pagan: Wicca Rede 1

* --- Shintoism:

* --- Native American


The Golden Rule is not a religion; it is the expression of religion. --- Charles L. Allen: God's Psychiatry

We should behave to friends as we would wish friends to behave to us. --- Aristotle

My duty towards my neighbors is to love him as myself, and to do all men as I would they should do unto me. --- Book of Common Prayer: Catechism

Do other men, for they would do you. --- Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch 11

All things whatsoever that thou wouldst not wish to be done to thee, do thou also not to another. --- The Diache, Teachings of the Twelve Apostles

The Golden Rule works like gravitation. --- Charles Fletcher Dole: Cleveland Address

Do as you would be done by. --- English Proverb

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others. --- Epictetus: Encheiridion

Do as ye wald be done to. --- David Fergusson: Scottish Proverbs

Sometime when you have a few spare moments, try to think of some other basic principle that would cure all the world's ills faster than the Golden Rull put into practice. --- Friendly Adventurer

Whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do ye to them. --- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, I

Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others. --- Isocrates

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you in like case. --- Petr Alekseivich Kropotkin: La Morale Anarchiste

This is the sum of all true righteousness: deal with others as thou wouldst thyself be dealt by. Do nothing to they neighbor which thou wouldst not have him do to thee hereafter. --- The Mahabharata

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as one's self, constitue the ideal perfection of utiltarian morality. --- John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

Deal with another as you'd have another deal with you; what you're unwilling to receive, be sure you never do (give). --- The New England Primer

Our conscience teaches us it is right, our reason teaches us it is usefull, that men should live according to the Golden Rule. --- W. Winwood Reade: The Martyrdom of Man, III

Treat you inferiors as you would be treated by your betters. --- Seneca: Epistolae ad Lucilium, Epis. XLVII, 11

Be just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee. --- William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1, Line 60.

Desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others. --- Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza: Ethica, IV

Which feature is most prominent in the human character, doing as we would be done by or doing as we are done by? --- Nathaniel W. Taylor

Be you to others kind and true, As you'd have others be to you; And neither do nor say to men, Whate'er you would not take again. --- Isaac Watts: Divine Songs for Children

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them. --- Benjamin Whichcote: Moral and Religious Aphorisms

As ye will that men do to you, and do ye to them in like manner. --- John Wycliffe: Luke 6: 31


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