Shalt Not Kill Quotes
24 quotes by 24 authors
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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.
— W.C. Fields
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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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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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Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have…
— Pope Francis
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What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing…
— Pope Pius XI
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of…
— Sigmund Freud
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Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that…
— Gary Yourofsky
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The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me . . . I always knew that some day I should defy it.
— John Christie
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I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to…
— Diana Dors
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Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously…
— Dave Brubeck
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The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
— Marvin Harris
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...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above…
— William Faulkner
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The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then…
— Peter De Vries
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I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.
— Willie Nelson
Who Wrote These Shalt Not Kill Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 24 Shalt Not Kill Quotes as follows: