Ten commandments Quotes

“Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?”

— Colin S. Smith

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

— Courtney Love

The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.

— Kinky Friedman

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

— Laura Schlessinger

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

— John Adams

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

— Pat Riley

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

— Douglas Coupland

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

— Josh Billings

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man…

— Rudyard Kipling

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

— Anton Szandor LaVey

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

— Maurice Strong

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

— Anonymous

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

— Anatole France

The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

— John Quincy Adams

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set.…

— Christopher Hitchens

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

— Thomas Reed

We are Jewish soldiers. Our battle orders include the rules of engagement and the Ten Commandments. The computer code of the F-35…

— Benny Gantz

Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object…

— David Brooks

When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws…

— Gary North

“As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking…

— Sarah Royal

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In…

— Valentina Tereshkova

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked…

— James Madison

“It seems improbable that the American fundamentalists, who desire to see the Ten Commandments emblazoned in every schoolroom and courtroom - almost…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Professional considerations made the Dean refrain from endorsing this open expression of murderous sentiment in its fullest form; a clergyman ought always…

— Grant Allen

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great…

— Katha Pollitt

“There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to…

— Ian Fleming

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was…

— Leonard Shlain

“So why did the King James translation of the Bible use the word ‘kill’ rather than ‘murder’? Because four hundred years ago…

— Dennis Prager

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of…

— Anonymous

“Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for…

— Carl Sagan

“The words "God said" appear ten times in the creation account. In this way the creation narrative anticipates the Ten Commandments. This…

— Pope Benedict XVI

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's…

— Newt Gingrich

“Hakimu na Kuhani Mkuu wa Shilo Eli alipata matatizo makubwa wakati wa mgogoro wa Waisraeli na Wafilisti, kati ya mwaka 2871 na…

— Enock Maregesi

“the Scandinavians—that is, the Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians—even have a literary phrase to describe this tendency. The phrase is “the Law of…

— Anu Partanen

“I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good LeChiffre. The Devil has a rotten time and…

— Ian Fleming

“Does God exist? This question has plagued mankind from the beginning of recorded history. Even the saintly Mother Teresa admitted in her…

— Michael Savage

“If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe…

— Sam Harris

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I…

— Anna Quindlen

“Whom I Desired (Chimadeti) SONG OF SOLOMON 2:3: “As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved…

— Chaim Bentorah

“ The Ten Commandments As Interpreted by Robin Palmetier 1. Don’t lie. Unless it’s to the police. 2. Don’t cheat your customers.…

— Marshall Thornton