Whatever You Believe, Just Be Nice CHRISTIANITY "Therefore 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." - Matthew 7:12 JUDAISM "What is harmful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary." - Talmud, Shabbat, 312 HINDUISM "This is the turn of duty; do naught unto others which could cause you pain if done to you." - Mahabharata, 5, 1517 CONFUCIANISM "Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto other that you would not have them do unto you." - Analects, 15, 23 TAOISM "Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss." - T’sai Shang Kan Ying P’ien BUDDHISM "Hurt not others in ways you yourself would find hurtful." - Udana-Varga, 5, 18 ZOROASTRIANISM "That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good for itself." - Didistan-i-dinik, 94, 5 ISLAM "No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself." - Sunnah SECULAR VIEW "Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." - George Bernard Shaw "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. " - John Donne 1572-1631