Quote by Simon Garfield

“Adultery doesn't come until the seventh commandment, and you won't even get to the seventh commandment if you don't violate the first two commandments.…

— Mark Driscoll

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

— Douglas Coupland

“And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.”

— Michael McDowell

“Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to 'covet thy neighbor's wife' clearly referred not to lust in one's heart…

— David Graeber

“school about it, and one of the girls said it reminded her of the Scripture in Hebrews 13 that says the bed of the…

— Julia C. Loren

“[T]he Old Testament, [...] if considered as a general rule of conduct, would lead to consequences destructive of all principles of humanity and morality.”

— David Hume

“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended…

— Thomas Paine

“Oh—so you’ve never noticed anything missing in the Ten Commandments?” He ran through the list in his head, but he already sensed where she…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

“It therefore provides a hermeneutical reference point for interpreting all his sayings, including the other Gospel statements from him about divorce and remarriage.”

— Rubel Shelly

All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Occasionally we believe that there must be an easier way, a shortcut or modification of the Lord’s commandments that will accommodate our individual circumstances.…

— Bruce A. Carlson

Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet.

— Bible