Shalt Quotes
272 quotes by 156 authors
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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
— William Shakespeare
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Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he…
— Immanuel Kant
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It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except…
— F. A. Harper
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We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to…
— Russell M. Nelson
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Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the…
— Linus Pauling
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The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his…
— Clarence Darrow
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Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
— William Shakespeare
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My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may…
— William Shakespeare
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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of…
— Oscar Romero
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"Thou shalt not bear false witness" Exodus 20:16. When we speak of morality, we imply that a man is true to his word-true to his…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves…
— Gary North
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If it be objected that God must give every man an opportunity to be saved, we reply that the outward call does give every man…
— Loraine Boettner
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So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes…
— Stephen Colbert
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First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more-no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count,…
— Michael Palin
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Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.
— W.C. Fields
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
— Otto Rank
Who Wrote These Shalt Quotes
156 authors contributed a total of 272 Shalt Quotes, led by these top contributors: