Definition Quote by Anne Carson

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

— Pope Boniface VIII

It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's…

— Anonymous

Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is…

— M. Scott Peck

“What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody…

— Wim Wenders

Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think…

— Radhanath Swami

“am developing a theory that people will do as much as you allow them to do to you. In this way of analyzing behavior,…

— Glynn Brown, Marlayna

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual…

— M. Scott Peck

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

— Benjamin Cardozo

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our…

— Epictetus

You may not violate the rights of one human being, even if it is suggested to be done for the sake of whole society.

— Ilkin Santak

One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.

— Vyasa

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are…

— Felix Frankfurter