“If you don't want to do something, don't impose on others”

Variant: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Source: The Analects, Other chapters, Chapter XVː23

Bite My Tongue
Song lyrics, Anywhere but Here (1997)

&quot;Copying Is Not Theft: Against Copyright Tyranny (by Nina Paley)&quot; (25 March 2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2p_BAjC7C8#t=25m21s&lt;!-- Retrieved 27 February 2013 --&gt; <br class="br">Context: You don&#x27;t deserve to be paid because you choose to do something that somebody else may, or may not, want. If you want to be paid for your work, you negotiate that beforehand. Otherwise I would just be walking around talking. Here I am talking now. &quot;You owe me money&quot;, right? … It&#x27;s up to you whether or not you want to do work with no contract. I think artists do need to do work with no contract, because what we&#x27;re motivated by is not money. We&#x27;re motivated by a need to express ourselves and to get our ideas out. That&#x27;s the motivation. It turns out that when people like it they frequently will support you if you give them a means, but this is not a contract.

Source: Invisible Monsters

We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

Nafahat al-Uns (Breaths of Fellowship)

The Secret of Letting Go

Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications