| Buddhist | Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would fine hurtful | Udana-Varqa, 5:18 |
| Zoroastrian | That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self. | Dadistan-i Dinik, 94:5 |
| Judaism | What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow men. That is the entire Law, all the rest is commentary. | The Talmud, Shabbat, 31a |
| Hindu | This is the sum of all true righteousness: deal with others as thou wouldst thyself be dealt by. Do nothing to thy neighbour which thou wouldst not have him do to thee after. | The Mahabharata |
| Christian | As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. | Luke 6:31 (see Matthew 7:12 also) |
| Islam | No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. | Sunnah |
| Taoism | The good man "ought to pity the malignant tendencies of others; to rejoice over their excellence; to help them in their straits; to regard their gains as if they were his own, and their losses in the same way." | The Thai-Shang, 3 |
| Confucianism | Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. | Analects, XV, 23 |
| Baha'i | Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself. | Tablets of Baha'u'llah, 71 |
Try this exercise on a friend or on yourself before you study it too closely. Print this page. Cut up the page like this: throw away the third column. Cut the other two columns along the column and row lines. Have a friend try to match up each religion to the proper quotation. Good luck. What do you learn from that exercise?