Ten Commandments Quotes

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When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities… — Katha Pollitt
I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. — Anton Szandor LaVey
No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It… — Mira Sorvino
Our modern world defined God as a â€˜religious complexâ€™ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table… — Roger Williams
Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend… — Robert Orben
As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without… — James Keller
I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we… — Yehuda Bauer
In New York State they have a strange law that says you can't get a divorce unless you can prove adultery - and it's weird,… — Woody Allen
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as… — Swami Satchidananda
The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the… — Noah Webster
Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he… — Cecil B. DeMille
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and… — Douglas MacArthur
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. — James Russell Lowell
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. — John P. Marquand
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? — Douglas Coupland
I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the… — Randall Terry
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in… — Cliff Stearns
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten… — Neal A. Maxwell
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. — Robert Breault

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