Commandments Quote by Malcolm Bradbury

You know what they say: if God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the ten commandments. We'd have had the ten suggestions

— Anonymous

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

— Zig Ziglar

They're the Ten Commandments, not the Ten suggestions

— Anonymous

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…

— Katha Pollitt

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

— Pat Riley

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

— Ronald Reagan

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be…

— Francois Fenelon

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

— James Madison

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

— John Bright

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

— Elizabeth Bibesco