DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO TO YOU

DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO TO YOU

An Opening Anthology of Reciprocity Adages ©

1) Not doing to another what you dislike so as to not cause another to do it to you. Ankhsheshonq, Instructions of (Ancient Egypt)

2) O mortals; listen and do the good deeds that I have done, and to you shall be done the like. Pyramid texts (Ancient Egypt)

3) A good man repays no wrong lest he too should be repaid. Egyptian

4) The true rule in life is to guard and do by the things of others Rig Veda as you do by your own.

5) One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one’s own self. Rule of Righteousness (Hindu)

6) He who sees all beings in his own self and his own self in all beings. –OR- That art thou. Upanishads (Hindu)

7) That we do unto others such things as reason dictates we should not unjustly desire from others ourselves. H Grotius

8) One ought to treat everyone as a kinsmen. Navajo

9) Therefore, if you cannot yet establish the character of others nor help others to be prominent, then you should only intend not to do to others what you do not want them to do to you. O Sorai (Zen)

10) As you wish no evil to befall you, but to partake of all that is good, so should you act on the same principle towards your subjects.Aristaeus

11) Whatsoever you want from other people, they will want from you. So whatever other people do for you, you should do for them. Jesus sutra-Persian

12) Thus, to treat others as persons (w/ respect) we must treat them as we would want or expect to be treated in like circumstances. Hannaford

13) Act towards others in the way which will result in the greatest good for all, giving equal consideration to the good of each. Baylis

14) Do to the other nothing that you do not want to have done to you, but rather act toward the other as you expect him to act towards you. A Dihle

15) If I will that no one treat anyone at all in such a manner in such a situation, then I ought to treat no one in such a manner in such a situation. H Hoche

16) One ought to treat others as one would wish them to treat oneself. R Hare

17) Do not do unto yourself what you do not wish. Zongzhou (China)

18)Do not do what you do not do, and do not will what you do not will. Mengzi

19) Do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you. Hart

20) Give out what you expect to get. New Age (“Alien” message)

Golden Rules
(Positive reciprocity, mutual cooperation/initiative)

1) Therefore all things whatsoever you desire that men should do to you, do you evenso to them. Jesus, Mediterranean

2) Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you; and reject for others what you would reject for yourselves. Mohammedanism, Islam

3) As ye would that men should do to you, do ye to them likewise. C Darwin, England

4) Each one should do unto others as he would have others do unto him Manco Capoc, Inca

5) Treat others, as thou wouldst thyself be treated. Do nothing to thy neighbor, which hereafter thou wouldst not have thy neighbor do thee.

Hinduism, India Silver Rules (Negative reciprocity, mutual constraint/noninterference)

6) Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them. Hillel, Middle east

7) Whatever thou dost not approve for thyself, do not approve for any one else. Zoroastrian, Persian

8) Let us consider ourselves in the others place. for the height of justice is this: that you do not do to another what you yourself would not want to suffer from another. Lactantius, Greek

9) …not doing that to others which we would not want done to us J La Mettrie, French

10) What men do to me, that I do not wish, I do not do to them Yang Ming, China

1) lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid on you and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for you

Baha’i

2) do unto others as an impartial rational person would advocate that they would do unto you. B Gert

3) the happily married treat each other as they wish to be treated. they treat their children better than they wish to be treated. Dunn

4) that one should apply to oneself the same standards one applies to others N Chomsky

5) loving our neighbors as our selves means we should treat all individuals we meet with the same concern we have for ourselves.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain

A Sample of Eastern Reciprocity Rules (India)

1) That man who regards all beings to be like his own self, who never does any harm and who has his wrath under control, obtains great happiness here and hereafter. Shanti Parva

2) He who regards all as his own self and behaves towards them as towards his own self, who never does any harm and who completely subjugates his wrath will be happy. Anusasana Parva

3) One should never do to another what one regards as injurious to one’s own self. this in brief is dharma. Anusasana Parva

4) In giving or refusing to give, in happiness and in misery, in what is agreeable and what is disagreeable, one should judge. of their effects on others by a reference to one’s own self. Anusasana Parva

5) He who sees with equality everything in the image of his own self, whether in pleasure or in pain, is considered a perfect yogi. Bhag. Gita

6) The wise man who perceives all beings as not distinct from his own self at all, and his own self as the self of every one-he does not, by virtue of that perception, hate any one. Isayasyopanishad

7) He whose self is harmonized by Yoga seeth the self abiding in all beings and all beings in the self; everywhere he sees the same. Bhag. Gita

8) He verily knows the substance of dharma who is always the friend of all and who is interested in the welfare of all in thought, word, and deed. Shanti Parva

9) Know this to be the essence of dharma and then practice it; refrain from doing unto others what you will not have done unto yourself. Devala

10) What is harmful to oneself, one should not do to others. This is the quintessence of dharma. Behavior which is contrary to this is born of selfish desire. Suvarna Niyania

Eastern Rules Cont. (China)

1) I should say this is SHU: what you do not want for yourself, do not do unto others. Confucius

2) What I do not wish others to do unto me, I also wish not to do unto them. Zigong

3) What you do not wish to be done to yourself do not do to others. Confucius

4) Fairness means making oneself the measure. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do unto others. What you dislike in others, reject in yourself. What you wish in others, seek in yourself. Shizi

5) Do not reprove in others what you show yourself. Do not demand of others what you do not show yourself. Mozi

6) A gentleman will only demand of others what he shows himself. And he will only reprove in others what he does not show himself. Daxue

7) Do not inflict to others what you do not feel comfortable about yourself. Zhong

8) Not to do unto others what one does not wish for oneself is humaneness. Zhong

9) What is demanded of subordinates should by all means also be striven for in the position of the ruler. And what is forbidden to the people should not do himself. Ying

10) Benevolence and fairness are not far from the Dao. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others. Zhongyong

11) Confucius-consider well that others will treat me as I treat them. Xunzi

12) To inflict to others what one dislikes means doing away with benevolence. Guo

1) Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. –OR- Christianity Therefore all things whatsoever you desire that men should do to you, do you evenso to them. Jesus Mat/NT -OR- Do not do unto others as you would not have others James do unto you. Western Ver. Old' Acts NT -OR- All those things which you do not want done to you, do Didache not do to another –AND- give and it shall be given to you Luke NT -AND- as you give so shall you receive Matthew NT

2) Do not seek revenge, or bear a grudge against another, Judaism OT but love your neighbor as yourself -OR- Moses(Greek v) thou shall treat your neighbor lovingly, for he is like OT (Hebrew v) yourself -OR- as you have done, it shall be done to you -OR- Obadiah OT as they do to me, so I do to them –OR- Judges OT Let the honor of thy fellow be dear to the as thy own –OR- Mishnah Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, Hillel do not do that to them –ANDLove all creatures, love your fellow as yourself –OR- Hillel

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves -OR- S Weil do not hate your brother in your heart Lev OT

3) Do unto all men as you would wish to have done unto you; and Islam reject for others what you would reject for yourselves. –ORNo one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that Sufi which he desires for himself. Wrong not, and ye shall not be wronged Koran

4) Hurt not others with that which pains yourself. –OR- Buddhism For a state that is not pleasant or delightful to me must also be to him also...how could I inflict that upon another? Buddhism

5) One should seek for others the happiness one desires for oneself Buddha -AND- see yourself in others, then what harm can you do -OR- just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I Buddha

6) shining upon others heat them and they retort that heat again Shakespeare to the first giver –ORBe just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee Shakespeare

7) What you do not yourself desire, do not put before others. Confucius -OR- Do unto another what you would have him do to you. Confucius

8) Treat others, as thou wouldst thyself be treated. Do Hinduism nothing to thy neighbor, which hereafter thou wouldst not have thy neighbor do thee. –ORHe who does not seek to cause the sufferings of bonds and death Manu to living creatures, but desires the good of all beings, obtains endless bliss. Utter not a word by which anyone could be wounded.

9) One should treat all beings as he himself would be treated. Jain 9’) Act by everyone in the same manner as if you supposed yourself to be him, and him to be you Pythagoras

10) This is the sum of duty. Do not unto others that which Mahabharrata would cause you pain if done to you. –ORGood people proceed while considering that what is best Hitopadesa for others is best for themselves. –ANDLet a person withhold from doing harm to another Hindu

11) That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto Zoroastrian another whatsoever is not good for itself. –ORWhatever thou dost not approve for thyself, do not approve Zoroastrian for any one else.

12) Regard your neighbors gains as your gain and your neighbors Taoism loss as your loss, even as though you were in their place. –Orthe more he does for others the richer he is, the more he Lao tsu gives the more he has. –ORWhoever loves the world as his self may be entrusted to Lao tsu care for the world. –OR- if you must take, first you must give

12’) Love one another; help one another –OR- Toltec be at peace with all men, do not offend anyone, respect everyone -OR- you are me and I am you Mayan

13) Do not do to others that which would anger you if others Socrates did it to you.

14) In your dealings with others, harm not that you be not harmed Seneca

15) What you wish your neighbors to be to you, such be also to them Sextus

16) The heart of the person before you is a mirror, see there Shinto your own form. –AND- Pinch yourself and know how others feel. Japan

17) We obtain salvation by loving our fellow man…I am a friend to all Sikh

18) Act toward others as you desire them to act toward you Isocrates

19) We should conduct ourselves toward others as we would have Aristotle them act towards us.

20) Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing Thales

21) Do not to your neighbor what you would take ill from him Pittacus

22) Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself –OR- Baha'u'llah And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou Baha'I for thy neighbor that which thou choosest for thyself

23) One going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird Yoruba should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts -OR- He who injures another injures himself Yoruba

-OR- a good deed will make a good neighbor Bantu

24) That one should do (only) as he would be done unto G Leibnitz

25) To do to fellow man what I would have my fellow man do to me H Melville

26) Never treat yourself or another rational being merely as a I. Kant means, but in every case, at the same time, treat him as an (Prac. Imp.) end in itself as well. -OR- Act always as if you were I. Kant legislating for a universal realm of ends (Cat. Imp.)

27) Whatsoever you require that others should do to you, that do T. Hobbs ye to them. Do not do to another what you don’t want done to you

28) Whatever I judge reasonable or unreasonable for another to do S. Clark for me, that by the same judgment I declare reasonable or unreasonable that I in the like case should do for him. 28’)”we should do all those things to others which we would wish P Abelard them to do to us if we were of the same status and of the same worth as them”

29) love thy neighbor's well-being as t'were thine own –OR- Spinoza desire nothing for yourself which you do not desire for others

30) What you desire for yourself you should desire for others Africa

31) O man, what you do not like, do not to your fellows Ba-Congo

32) Kindness will be returned to you and he will treat you in Winnebago the same way in which you treat him

33) Do to others as I would that they should do to me Plato

34) Do as thou wouldst be done by –OR- Augustine love with care, and do as thy will –ORDo unto others whatever good things you want done to yourself Augustine

35) What you avoid suffering, do not attempt to make others suffer Epicetus

36) Do not to another what you would not yourself experience –OR- Inca each one should do unto others as he would have others Manco Capoc do unto him

37) To do as you would be done by, and to love your neighbor as J. S. Mill yourself

38) And that which ye will that other men should not do unto King Alfred you, do ye not that to other men

39) If thou seest another man hurting from time to time, go to Amen-em-apt him and enable him to continue on his way

40) Reciprocate, help others in need, do no evil are the basics Osirus/Menes

41) Do not wrong or hate. For it is not he who you wrong, but yourself Pima

42) Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as Aristippus anxious for another's welfare as your own

43) You should do to others those things which you want done to you L Tolstoy

44) And it harm none, do what thou will –OR- Wiccan Rede Markwell, when thou receivest good, so equally art thou bound to return good threefold Gardnerian Wicca

45) Treat others only in ways that you're willing to be treated in H. Gensler the same situation -0R- act only as you are willing for anyone to act in a similar context H Gensler

46) One should act toward others as one would have them act P. Weiss towards oneself

47) Do unto others as they would do unto you Lex Talionis

48) Do unto others as they would have you do unto them -OR- “Old Inversion” doing unto others, whenever possible, as they want to be done by Inversion 48’) there should be no harm, nor, reciprocating of harm Koran -OR- As thou deemest thyself, so deem others Kabir

49) Do not do what any one is vexed to suffer Greek 49’) don’t do to another what you don’t like for yourself Roman Proverb

50) Only a life lived for others is worth living A Einstein

51) the whole people of this nation-they will ever do well, if well A Lincoln done by. –AND- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master

52) Act as if you were at once yourself and your neighbor, J Royce with the experiences of both included in one life

53) It is best to do to another what will strengthen you even as it will strengthen the other –OR- activate in the historical partner what will strengthen him in his historical development even as it strengthens the actor in his own development E. Erikson

54) That line of action is alone justice which does not harm M Gandhi either party to a dispute –AND- “the golden rule of conduct, therefore, is mutual toleration…”

55) Treat other people as brothers and sisters, as sons and J Wattles daughters of God, as you want others to treat you

56) Where you would not have your own babe live and develop... J London is not a fit place for the babes of other men to live and develop

57) the heart of the question is...whether we are going to treat J Kennedy fellow americans as we want to be treated.

58) Act as if everyone else were going to pattern their lives J P Sartre after how you live

59) Act according to norms that could ideally meet with consent J Habermas of all affected parties -AND- by each for all and by all for each

60) As ye would that men should do to you, do ye to them likewise C Darwin 95

61)What I do not want others to do to me, I do not want to do to them Tzu Kung

62) be considerate and you will find that this is the shortest way Mencius to cohumanity

63) that one strive to do the same good to others that one would Mo Tzu want for themself

64) I will be as careful for you as I should be for myself in the Homer same need

65) But what I condemn in others, I will, if I may, avoid myself Maeandrius

66) that which seems evil unto thee do not do to thy companion Sumerian -OR- “you shall love him as yourself” Babylonian Gilgamesh

67) Whatever I would like to have you do to me, were I in your O Nash place, I am going to do to you

68) It's right if it's still right when you put yourself in the L Kohlberg others place

69) What is right(wrong) for any one person is right(wrong) for M Singer any similar person in similar circumstances

70) I as an embodied ego, in the presence of another person before E Husserl me, recognize that person as analogous to myself

71) do not judge any man until you have walked two moons in his N America moccasins. Respect for all life is the foundation. Indian

72) do not do what others do not choose to do, do not desire what Mencius others do not desire

73) What men do to me, that I do not wish, I do not do to them Yang ming

74) What is so close to natural experience as that people may not Origen do to others what they do not want to see done to themselves.

75) let us consider ourselves in the others place. for the height Lactantius of justice is this: that you do not do to another what you yourself would not want to suffer from another.

76) As you behave toward others, expect that others will behave to you Latin -OR- “Golden law,” do as ye would be done by OED 2nd ed., Godfrey, Persian -AND- he would not do the very thing which he blamed in them Xerxes

77) Reciprocity, mutual obligation, sharing, and responsibilities Aborigine and cooperation between kin, and family, are the central precepts. (Oral)

78) To do as you would be done by, is the plain, sure and l. Chesterfield undisputed rule of morality and justice

79) Every man takes care that his neighbor does not cheat him. But R Emerson a day comes when he begins to care that he to not cheat his neighbor

80) the duty of man...with respect to his neighbor, to do as he T. Paine would be done by

81) Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they H Thoreau should do unto you, is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver -ORThe

law to do as you would be done by fell with less H Thoreau persuasiveness on the ears of those, who, for their part, did not care how they were done by

82) What ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also M. Luther unto others

83) Whatever...they do not wish to be done to them, they do not Aristide do to another

84) to adopt the role of impartial spectator: and then, having A. Smith made up our minds what in the circumstances, as so viewed, we should wish to be done to us, to act accordingly –Orthe great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbor…or as our neighbor is capable of loving us

85) Do other men, for they would do you C. Dickens

86) If it be a duty to respect other men's claims, so also is it H. Spencer a duty to maintain our own.

87) What you hate to suffer, you must not do to others Philo

88) That one should do as he would be done unto J. Locke

89) to do unto others as you would they should do unto you Somerset

90) do unto others as you have a right that they do unto you A Gewirth

91) Never do to other persons what would pain yourself Panchotantra

92) Hurt not others with that which pains yourself Varga

93) these, when they flatter most, do but as they would be done onto Pope

94) Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the apple St. Thomas of your eye. –AND- do not lie, and do not do what you hate Gospel

95) we should do to others as we are glad that they did so to us R. Hare

96) do not do to the other as he or she does not want done to P Ricoeur he or she

97) necessity may force you to do unto the prince that which Machiavelli you see the prince about to do to you

98) do not allow others to do unto you as you would not do unto them English

99) do unto others as they want you to do unto them T Szasz 97

100) Everything therefore, be it what it may, that you would T Jefferson have men do to you, do you also the same to them

101) when you are good to others, you are best to yourself. B Franklin

102) An act that harms anyone, harms us all Starhawk

103) The law imprinted on the hearts of all men is to love Roman Pagan the members of society as themselves

104) If men were to regard the states of others as they regard Mo-tzu their own, then who would raise up his state to attack the state of another? -OR- when a man loves others, they love him in return

105) To the best of my ability I shall refrain from doing Herodotus that for which I reproach my neighbor

106) Do the other good, that he may do good to you Maat

107) he who does wrong to another, does wrong to himself Fate

108) do good to other beings as if they were his own self Sadhu

109) Act in accord with your recipient’s desires as well as A Gewirth your own, including the principles upheld by your recipient as well as by yourself

110) bid a person apply to his conduct(towards)other people the R Hume simple test whether he would like such treatment accorded to him

111) Do as you are done by –OR- do to others as they did to you “Retaliation”

112) if your sister cooks for you using a broken pot, do the Kipsigis same for her. –AND- Don’t do evil to others, for if you do, you will pay for it here on earth Kikuyu

113) If this grandiose commandment (i.e., “Love thy neighbor as S Freud thyself”) had run “Love thy neighbor as thy neighbor loves thee,” I should not take exception to it.

114) The fox, as a good host, would have to put himself in Aesop the position of a guest who has a long beak. –AND- treat others as you want them to treat you

115) treat yourself as you would have others treat themselves “honestum”

116) Whatever you do not want another to do to you, do not do to him German

117) life for a life, eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, Bible Ex OT as he has injured the other so is he to be injured -OR- ...you shall love the stranger as yourself Lev OT

118) It will not do that you should regard an act as right Lysias when you do it to another, though you regard it as wrong when you suffer its being done to you 98

119) Treat everyone in the way that you would wish to be H Hoche treated in their position

120) Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to A Schweitzer maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life

121)When you learn to live for others, they will live for you Yogananda

122) do as you would be done by J Q Adams

123) according as I did to you, so also to me Ahikar

124) Do not say; I will do so to him as he hath done to me Proverbs OT

125) do unto others as if you were the others Hubbard

126)always unto others do what they would like to do to you Huffenstein

127) do unto others as they would have you do unto them S Harris

128) do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves Ade

129) do unto others as you would be done unto Unknown

130) do to others as thou wouldst have them do to thee W Penn

131) As you wish to be treated, see that you treat another, Columbanus what you do not like yourself, do not do to another

132) Steer that we may carry the bad man over, for we will Amen-en-apt not do as he has done –OR- each man teaches as he acts PtahHotep

133) Let us do to him as we would be done unto Cavendish

134) that we love those who ought to be most dear to us as well Cicero as we love ourselves

135) Do unto the other feller the way he’d like to do unto you, Wescott an’ do it fust

136) treat others as thou wouldst be treated; dispense not to Ansari others what thou likest not for thyself

137) do to other as thou wouldst they shuld do to thee, Socrates and do to noon other but as thou would’st be doon to

138) expect to be treated by others as you treat others. Syrus

139) accept for thyself what thou wouldst accept for others Sadi

140) No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them Whichcote

141) let me not do unto any that which at the same time I Ausonius would not have done to me

142) what you do not wish done to yourself, do not to another Lampridius

143) He does good to himself who does good to his friend Erasmus

144) Hee that doeth not as he oughte, must not looke to be Guasso done as he would

145) Thou shalt do only unto others as they would do unto you Essenes

146) do unto others as you have been done by Old Euro variation

147) so what you wish others would do to you, do so to them as well “Q” -OR- the measure you give, is the measure you will receive NT Mark -OR- as iron sharpens iron, so people can improve each other Proverbs OT

148) do to others that which you do not wish them to do to you Huneker

149) treat others as thou wouldst be treated thyself modern variation

150) Always do unto others what is best for you Heller

151) do unto others as you would have them do unto themselves “Parody”

152) do unto others as they would do unto you if they had Anonymous the chance

153) real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of G Santayana others

154) the need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others G Steinem

155) to treat others as they want to be treated Modern saying

156) What you desire for yourself you should desire for others Moroccan

157) My duty towards my neighbor is to love him as myself, Catechism and to do all men as I would they should do to me

158) do as you would be done to Fergusson Scottish proverb

159) as ye will that men do to you, and do ye to them in like manner Wycliffe

160) we ought to act that part towards another which we T Reid would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances and he in ours

161) you do not sacrifice yourself to others and you do not A Rand wish them to sacrifice themselves to you

162) I am certain that if you were there and we were here, G Meir you would be doing what we are doing there, and you would ask us who are here to do what you will have to do

163) The code of morality is to do unto others as you would B Jordan have them do unto you. 100

164) you do the same good for another that you might J Hertzler reasonably desire for yourself if you were in his place, or refrain from committing an act to the other fellow that if

perpetuated upon you would be hurtful or unpleasant to you.

165) Do unto others as you would have others do unto you in a like case –OR- …freely giving more than one expects to receive from his neighbor Kropotkin –AND- do not wish to others what you do not want yourself Bogadanov

166) above all do no harm, help relieve pain and suffering Medical dictum

167) always treat a man as you would wish to be treated yourself Frayn

168) I shall do unto you as you do unto me M Weber

169) try to treat others as you would want them to treat you Scientology -AND- try not to do to things to others that you would not like them to do to you

170) do unto others as you would they should do unto you Old variant

171) do unto others as others would have you do unto them Lara

172) and that which I do to another I do to myself Goldsmith

173) You should not do unto others what you would have them G. B. Shaw do unto you

174) if you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself Eckhart

175) do unto others before they do unto you C Pearson

176) do unto others as I did unto you New Yorker

177) do unto others what they shouldn’t be doing unto you N Y Times

178) strive to treat others as they wish themselves to be treated Pantheists

179) why not do unto others what you just did unto me E Segal

180)what you do not wish others should do unto you, do not do unto them Frost

181) As you would have men treat you, so should you treat them PS Buck

182) And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you Urantia also to them. Measure for measure shall not be your rule

183) reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and a good H Sidgwick the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable

184) do unto others as they would do unto you R Nixon

185) do unto others as you would expect them to do unto you R Dole

185’) Act so, as you would like everybody to act in similar situations Reiner

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186) love thy neighbor as thou lovest thyself, or love thyself C Jung as thou lovest thy neighbor 186’) the only way to achieve true joy and fulfillment is by becoming Zohar

a being of sharing

187) not doing that to others which we would not want done to us J La Mettrie

188) see that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but Thessalonians always pursue what is good for both yourselves and others -OR- love does no harm to thy neighbor St. Paul

189) you shall love yourself in the same way as you love your neighbor, when you love him as yourself Kierkegaard

190) The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and M L King even his life for the welfare of others

191) Which feature is most prominent in human character, doing as Taylor we would be done by or doing as we are done by

192) I’ll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what Bambara they do unto themselves

193) I believe in the brotherhood of men, all men, but I don’t Malcolm X believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I am not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return that treatment.

194) Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what Hoffer we have done unto others

195) that you love each other…and thy neighbor as thyself Voltaire

196) The evil which you do not wish done to you, you ought to refrain H More from doing to another, so far, as may be done without injury to some third person.

197) "Treat others as thou wouldst be treated thyself." Adi Granth

198) "In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self." Mahavira

199)treat other people as you’d want to be treated in their situation Humanism –AND- don’t do things you would not want to have done to you. -OR- “Humanists acknowledge human interdependence, the need for mutual respect and the kinship of all humanity”

199’) Respect and uphold society’s moral order as you would have A Etziani society respect and uphold your autonomy

200) It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself E Roosevelt

III) Divergent Points of View/Different Preferences:

9) Don't do to another what you would like to be done by -OR- GR/SR “Denial” You should not do unto others what you would have them do unto you G. B. Shaw

10) Do unto yourself as you would have others do unto you S. Keen

11) Always choose the action that maximizes the number of people “Mortal who will be sorry to hear of your death. (A Mark Twain variant) Imperative”

12) To those who are good to me, I am good; to those who are not Lao Tzu good to me, I am also good. Thus all get to be good.

13) Do not do what others do not choose to do; do not desire Mencius what others to not desire

Golden Rule Supplement I©

1) do not do for others what you wouldn’t think of asking them to do for you J. Billings

2) In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself Ephesians NT

3) We ought to do to our neighbor all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you, but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again. Pilpay

4) I should love my neighbor for not because he is neighborhood…but because he is myself. Love and serve men. Sri Aurobindo

5) “everything happens to every man as though the whole human race had its eyes fixed upon what he is doing and regulated its conduct accordingly.” M Foucault

6) All things, are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. Black Elk (Sioux)

7) do not do unto others what they will not do for themselves Modern Parody

8) What is good and just for one is good and just for another. All men are brothers. Amer. Indian

9) Act towards others as if you became conscious of them at the same time as you become conscious of yourself M Fouillee

10) Each is to limit his freedom, the sphere of his free actions, through the concept of the freedom of the “other” in such a way that the other, too, “can exist as free.” J Fichte

11) Understand that through serving others, you shall be served. Tenrikyo

12) One should look out not only for one’s own interests, but for what is good for others Phili./NT

13) In our every action, we should consider the impact on the next seven generations Iroquois

14) I give so you can receive, and you give, so I can receive. Austral Abo

15) We must start treating nature as we would want to be treated SJ Gould

16) “Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself,”-because they neighbor is thyself. Bhag. (Hindu)

17) Do good to him who has done you an injury TAO

18) from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs Motto

19) A superior being does not return evil for evil…one should never harm the wicked or good…for who is without fault Ramayana (hindu)

20) You reap what you sow. What comes around, goes around West, and East 144

Golden Rules Supplement II©

1) life is as dear to all beings as it is to oneself; feel compassion for every being, taking thy own self as the measure. Viveka

2) When ants are struck, they do not take it (passively), but bite the hand of the man who sticks them –AND-you go and take the field of the enemy, the enemy comes and takes your field Akkadian Proverb

3) do not return evil to your adversary; requite with kindness the one who does evil to you Akkadian (Shuruppak)

4) you should always ask yourself what would happen if everyone did what you are doing JP Sarte

5) as you think of yourself, so think of others Sahib

6) if you haven’t the will to gladden someone’s heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone’s heart. Sufi

7) I will act towards others exactly as I would act towards myself Vada

8) bring out the best in the other, and thereby in oneself F Adler

9) treat all things as if they were a part of yourself –OR- I made the four winds that every man might breathe thereof like his fellow in his time Ancient Egypt

10) Keep the balance true between thyself and thy neighbor, practice the principle of equilibrium Doc. Of Mean

11) That to do good to others is virtue and to inflict grief is vice Vyas

12) Be mindful of me and I will be mindful of you Qur’an

13) Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you. C Reese

14) Revere the life of the other, as you revere your own life A Schweitzer

15) Ashes fly back in the face of him who throw them. Yoruba

16) do to the other nothing that you do not want to have done to you, but rather act toward the other as you expect him to act toward you A Dihle

17) for all persons A, if A thinks other persons should do X to A, then A should do X to other persons -AND- do not do to others what you reject in your neighbor B Alton

18) do unto others what you would have them do unto you from a “moral” (impartial) perspective R Trapp

19) One ought to treat other living beings as one would wish to be by them Reilly

20) do not do to your neighbor what you would not want him to do to you P Ricoeur 145

Golden Rules Supplement III©

1) Do not do yourself what you detest in other persons Manichaeism

2) Render others as happy as one desires oneself to be, and never inflict more pain upon them than one would like to receive at their hands Marquis de Sade

3) do that unto the people, which when done to thyself, is not disagreeable unto thee Zoroaster

4) …men should give mutual aid, and enjoy reciprocal peaceful pleasure by showing in their conduct that they are brethren Shinto

5) …not doing to others (what they do not wish) is possible after some effort Yang-ming

6) do unto others what you think it ‘right’ for them to do unto you R Gould

7) Let not your heart be induced to do evil –And- Assyrian seek what is right, avoid what is wrong

8) …as you treat your mother-in-law-, so will women later treat you Akkadian

9) treat others as they prefer, so that others will treat you as you prefer Modern variation

10) give thyself to me, then I shall give myself to thee Hittite

11) Others will mostly treat you the way you treat yourself M Moussa

12) what you do to others, you are doing to yourself, and what you do to yourself you are doing to others Theosophical Society

13) Whatever you do to others you also do to yourself E Fromm

14) Actually one should not only refrain from doing to others what one does not want others to do to you; whatever one wants others to do to him he should do to others Ch’en Ch’un

15) let us give in the same way in which we ourselves should like to Seneca receive –OR- what we do not want done to us, we will not cause in another

16) If you desire that no one injure you in respect to what is yours, then do not injure him Akiba

17) …that whatever you will like the “true one” to do to you, that do to his creatures al’Arabi

18) give a just verdict, and prove yourselves to be for me such judges as you would want to have for yourself –AND- do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others –AND- conduct yourself toward your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves toward you Isocrates

19)The happiest man is one who makes happy as many people as he can Diderot 146

1) “do not foster the ego more than the alter; care for the alter as much as for the ego” Bhagavan Das

2) “A person is not mature until he has both the ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and do unto those others as he would have them do to him.” Overstreet

3) full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy. –AND- Buddha If you do not tend one another, who is there who will tend you Buddhism

4) one may take any action to fulfill one’s own needs and desires so long as those actions do not interfere with any other person’s ability to take action in pursuit of their own needs and desires. Internet “JAK”

5) expect others to do by you as you do by them M Miller

6) treat all people as I believe, to the best of my knowledge, they wish to be treated. Let all people act with and for me and let me act with and for all people. T Lewis

7) Live this life as if it is all any of us have, respecting the lives of others as if their lives are all they have. Secular Humanism

8) the suffering of others is my suffering, the good of others my good Shinto

9) A wise man shall always share with others Hinduism

10) Act towards others on the same principles you would have others apply in their treatment of you. M Singer

11) do to others as you think they would like to be done by Hinde

12) our own regular and well-governed desires, what we are willing Boraston that other men should do, or not do to us, are a sufficient direction and admonition; what we in the like cases, ought to do, or not do to them.

13) …”each” must sacrifice himself to “all” so that he in turn may be enriched and nourished because he’s “interpenetrated” by his opposite Dialectical Materialism

14) seek for your neighbor what you seek for yourself Hasdai/Jud

15) Morality requires us to do unto others as we would have them do unto us if we found ourselves in their position with our (their) own tastes and preferences (and ideals) Hooker

16) treat yourself only as you are willing to have been treated by H Gensler yourself (in the past) –AND- treat yourself (in the future) only as you are willing to have others treat themselves in the same situation

17) Act in accord with the generic rights of your recipients as well as yourself A Gewirth

18) Don’t create enmity with anyone Sikh 147

1) Think about others as we would have them think about us. Christ. Science

2) Do unto others even better than you would have them do unto you Dillon

3) do to others what is best for all “Diamond Rule”

4) treat yourself as you would like to be treated Egoist

5) what proceeds from you, will return to you Confucius

6) Do unto others as they themselves would have done unto them Bennett

7) let the love thou feelest pass into the heart of those whom thou lovest; cause all men to be loving… Ancient Egypt

8) As you are kind, so will you be shown kindness Clement

9) What you hate yourself do to no one Tobit

10)…and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his OT Zech neighbor. –AND- do not do anything to endanger your neighbor Torah

11) let us resolve not to hurt one another; to do nothing unkind or unfriendly to each other, nothing which we would not have done to ourselves J Wesley

12) It is right to act towards others as it would be right for them to act towards us Hazlitt

13) you must manifest complete love and affection toward all mankind Bahai

14) Love thy neighbor (as thyself?.) Confucius (Analects), Thales? (Greece)

15) do not hurt others, do no one injury by thought, or deed, utter no word to pain thy fellow creature (absence of hurtfulness is the ideal) Hindu

16) hurt none by word or deed, be consistent in well doing –AND- Buddhism minister to friends…by treating them as he treats himself

17) thou shall love thy neighbor more than thine own self Barnabas, Epistle

18) One should do no harm to any living being, neither by thoughts nor words nor acts. Non-injury is the highest religion. Jainism

19) As far as possible, one should not interfere in the affairs of others. Sri Maharshi

20) Do unto others as they would do unto themselves –OR- “Platinum Rule” Do unto others as they would have you do unto them

21) do to others the good you seek for yourself –AND- Jesus NT for I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you

22) let us not please ourselves, but each of us rather please his neighbor, for his good, to build him up St. Paul NT 148

1) If you do unto other men as they do undo you, you are but slaves Jesus -AND- judge not lest ye be judged, forgive and ye will be forgiven

2) It is better to serve others than to make others serve you Gnostic

3) what you wish others to do, do yourself Ramakrishna

4) giving is receiving, receiving is giving Africa women’s traditional

5) If you do not meet my needs, I will not meet yours Modern variation

6) men gifted with intelligence and purified souls should always treat others as they themselves wish to be treated Mahabharrata

7) …when they have really learned to love their neighbors as C S Lewis themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbors 8) …that no man foster hatred against us in his heart, that we foster no hatred in our hearts against any man Talmud

9) do unto others only that to which they consent Louw

10)let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee Abraham Gen OT

11) Act for him, who acts for thee Eloquent Peasant Ancient Egypt

12) give to every human being every right you claim for yourself Ingersoll

13) Knowledge-know each other, goodness-love thy neighbor Hindu Proverb

14) do not do to others the things which make you angry when you experience them at the hands of other people King Nicocles

15) Be considerate to thy companion as thyself. And be mindful of Sira all thou detesteth.

16) …and none should do to his neighbor what he does not like himself T. Naph

17) Whatever you wish your subjects to think and do, this you should always say and do yourself Mecaenas (in Dio)

18) “behave toward all your children, the way you want them to Parenting GR behave toward you, themselves, and others. For as you behave toward them, they’ll behave towards you, themselves and others.”

19) What you would not find acceptable if it were done to you Akan Africa by another do not do to him or her

20) …and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make Beatles -AND- I am you, and you are me, and we are all together

21) ”give well being, to bestow life…” Ancient Elamites

22) We should not determine the needs of others by our own needs Winkler

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1) do not concern yourself with vengeance; do what is in front of you. –AND- an action happens to it’s maker Instructions of Ankhsheshonq

2) Sacrifice your own perfection to the perfectioning of your neighbor Pierce

3) Progress comes from every individual merging his individuality in Brent sympathy with his neighbor

4) One must value others as much (or more) as you do yourself Altruism maxim

5) If he does favors, people will do favors for him Early Mesopotamia

6)If he loves only good only goodness will follow him all the time Mesopot’ia If he speaks according to justice, he will have good recompense Moral canon

7) Do to others whatever we would have done to us Rockwell 8) do unto others, as you know they, would have you do to them “Neoplatinum”

9) be devoted to one another in brotherly love Romans NT

10) a stone will return on him who rolls it. –And- Proverbs OT A man’s deeds returns to him

11) those who dig a pit will themselves fall into it -AND- Ecclesiasties OT Evil begets evil

12) through love serve one another Galatians NT

13) Do to her as she has done Jer. OT

14) I will do unto others as I would they should do unto me. Cicero(Trollope)

15) with the kind you show yourself kind Sam 2 OT

16) do not invite your friends lest they invite you back Luke NT

17) We are all in this together. We all have to do our part to help each other Nordic Modern Scandia

18) Society is justified in coercing the behavior of an individual to prevent him from injuring others; it is not justified in coercing him simply because the behavior is immoral or harmful to himself JS Mills

19) We are to do unto others as we would be willing to have them do to us, so for as they are able P Weiss

20) It is a duty not only to repay a service done, but also to take the initiative oneself in doing a service Aristotle

21) In other words, the best response of all players are in accordance with each other. –OR- do unto others as we would have them do unto us Nash (Econ. Rule)

22)…my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving A Einstein 150

1) Desire for others that for which you yourself strive B Spinoza

2) The best people among you are the ones who are benefactors to others Mohammad

3) Always seek gain through the gain of others, and never seek gain through the forced or fraudulent loss of others Snelson

4) Do as you would be done by Huxley

5) Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the freedom of any other man H Spencer

6) Love of my own self is inseparately connected with the love for any other being E Fromm

7) Do as the other did, and expect the other to do as you did R Axelrod

8) do to others not as you would be done by, but as you were done by others “Tit for Tat”

9) What you wish to experience, provide for another Dalai Lama

10) All that one gives to others one gives to oneself Maharshi

11) He who finds no room for others lacks fellow feeling, and to him who lacks fellow feeling, all men are strangers Chuang Tzu

12) everyone is to do to others as he would be done by T Aquinas

13) one ought to do to others only what one would have them do to G Leibnitz oneself

14) he sought for others the good he desires for himself. Let him pass it on Egyptian

15) Each person is to have equal right to the most liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others J Rawls

16) treat others only in ways you would ‘consent’ to be treated if you didn’t know your position as any recipient in the situation. Veil Ignorance

17) fight fire with fire –AND- fight fire with water old sayings

18) the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the enemy of my friend is my enemy near-east saying

19) if you want something from someone else, you must first do it Stoics for him or he who is first to do his friends good is worthy of the highest praise -Or- “do as it is done to you” Socrates

20) If you wish good from people, do good to them. –AND- Apresian Whatever you do not wish to receive from others (in response) do not do to others. 151

1)do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourself Phil 2:3

2) Diamond Rule: Do unto others as they have done unto you. –ANDLeaden Rule: Do unto others before they do unto you Loebner

3) A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. A. Asimov-Zeroth Law

4) everything must be consensual Womensplace

5) do unto others as though you might be them or they might be you E Zorn

6) But if you do right to me, baby, I'll do right to you, too. Ya got to do unto others, Like you'd have them, like you'd have them, do unto you. B Dylan

7) every behavior which is legitimate for this organization is legitimate for everybody else too. (“Syndicate model”, GR Anarchism) Schmelzer

8) So knowledge of the dissolution of all things dispels that ignorance in which one sees oneself as separate from others Uddhava Gita

9) unless I know what is really good for me, I cannot know what is really good(right) for all others—goods they need to which they have a natural right that I, in justice, must respect? M Adler

10) the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all K Marx

11) do to customers as you would have the corporation to do to you “Business”

12) do unto others as they would have you to unto them (Plat. Rule) Etziani

13) If a man is willing to do unto others as he expects them to do unto him, he will find that, far from giving more than he gets, he will get more than he gives. J C Penny

14) treat your employees as you treat your boss modern business credo

15) do to another as you do to yourself old Latin saying

16)We should act toward other nations as we wish them to act toward us M Fillmore

17) them that has the gold makes the rules Corporate motto

18) A man ought to be a friend to his friends and repay gift with gift. People should meet smiles with smiles, and lies with treachery. The Edda, 13th-century Norse Epic

19) "What you do not wish to be done to you, do not do to anyone else." Early Greek Stoics

20) person A can act, affecting person B, if A would not object in B's position. In turn person B can react, if A would not object to the reaction. Rights-based Golden rule version 152

1) 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

2) do unto other generations what we would have done unto ourselves Fonseca

3) “quid pro quo” (favor for favor) Old Latin saying

4) do unto others what (you think) they ought to wish to have done to them Costa

5) do unto others what you would have others do unto you, and reciprocate what others have done to you. Modern variant

6) Do not do to others what you would have them not do to you. A. J.Galambos

7) Help others as you would have them help you. T. Wilken

8) Science's Golden Rule: Give Back To The Community L. Reif-lehrer

9) Do unto others so that they will treat you the same way “Artificial form”

10) We treat our guests better than they expect to be treated “Famous Dave”

11) Provide the service you yourself would like to receive Herb Keheller

12) do unto others the way you would desire yourself to do unto yourself –anddo not do unto others what you would not desire yourself do to unto yourself B Mou

13) Treat others as you would want an infinitely more advanced species to treat you. Todd Hoff

14) “Men and women should accept only peer-based, reciprocating relationships that begin with mutual, simultaneous pursuit.” M Rudov

15) do unto others as you would not have them do to you –ANDdo unto others as they would have you do to yourself Parody I II

16) do as the other did, and expect the other to do as you did de Waal

17) develop unto others as you would have them develop onto you Joel Schurke

18) they (dolphins) act towards humans as they want humans to act towards them -and- whales seem to use a "negative” (Silver) rule of not doing unto humans as they do not want humans to do unto them Dr. J. Lilly

19) What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others -and- What you wish done to yourself, do to others Global Ethic

20) harm no one but rather, as far as possible, help others. Schopenhauer