The Golden Rule Quotes

“Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.

I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Red Parts

“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It’s not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“A Christian's duty is to win souls for Christ. It would seem to me that tearing down a church you disagree with is like shooting holes in someone else's overloaded lifeboat to prove it's not as safe as yours. (from "Bullies, Wolves, Sheep and Sheepdogs)”
― Tom King

“If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Promise

“Taoism ~ There is no 'other'. All is One.”
― Leland Lewis, Random Molecular Mirroring

“She may not be like everyone else, but neither am I.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Golden Rule

“There’s a problem with treating others as you’d like to be treated when you don’t treat yourself all that well.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“The Golden Rule ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. The Platinum Rule is better. The rule is simple: Be good. Like the Golden Rule, it’s flexible. A matter of conscience. It starts from the baseline of morality—don’t do harm to others—and then it’s really up to you.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.”
― Renata Bowers, Frieda B. Meets the Man in the Moon

“So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.”
― Renata Bowers, Frieda B. Meets the Man in the Moon

“What we do is what means the most.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“We all have to share this world. The best way to do that is to be nice to each other.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Golden Rule

“In short, we are living by 'the Golden Rule - whoever has the gold rules.”
― Peter Temin, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

“The Golden Rule applies to everyone, not just the living.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening

“Just because you don’t do something all that wrong doesn’t make the things you do right.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Treat other sadomasochists as you would treat yourself.”
― Brian Spellman, We have our difference in common 2.

“We must have a respectful debate. We must be allowed to research information for ourselves. Above all, we must treat each other as we wish to be treated, no matter how much hostility is out there.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Stop treating people how they treat us; instead, treat them how you want to be treated. Be selfish.”
― Dev Preetham Pagidipati