Ten Commandments Quotes

101 quotes by 85 authors

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms… — W. Somerset Maugham
Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses… — Michelle Malkin
I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is,… — Whitley Strieber
The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. — Tom Lantos
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
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired… — Elmer Bernstein
Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey Godâ€¦For if you teach and urge your families things will… — Martin Luther
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. — Anatole France
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. — Elizabeth Bibesco
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. — Mordecai Richler
When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for… — Gary North
What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. — Gary North
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing… — Charlie Campbell
Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have… — Barry Goldwater
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. — Edwin Louis Cole
You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten… — Alan Dershowitz
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready… — Isadora Duncan
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the… — Christopher Hitchens
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding… — John Mellencamp
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. — H. L. Mencken

Who Wrote These Ten Commandments Quotes

85 authors contributed a total of 101 Ten Commandments Quotes, led by these top contributors: