Top 100 Commandments The Ten Quotes
#1. In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words
liberty, equality, and fraternity
do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#2. As ancient Israel had removed the Ten Commandments from its national consciousness, so America did likewise, removing the Ten Commandments from
Jonathan Cahn
#3. The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
Pat Riley
#4. When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.
Christopher Hitchens
#5. (Alfred's sister, Olive Deering, was famous in those years for her sentiments during her filming of the endless DeMille epic The Ten Commandments: "Who do I have to fuck to get off this picture?")
Lee Grant
#7. Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere ... they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.
Victor J. Stenger
#8. Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
Randall Terry
#9. According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.
Robert Breault
#10. I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.
Roy Moore
#11. A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.
Neal A. Maxwell
#12. If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'
Robert Townsend
#13. 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
#14. Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.
John Bright
#15. 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 all of life, but especially for the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.
Gary North
#16. The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder.
Dennis Prager
#17. God first acts in grace and mercy by delivering the people, and then the people respond in gratitude and thanksgiving by obeying the commandments. Put succinctly: the crossing of the Red Sea comes before the giving of the Ten Commandments. How
Richard J. Foster
#18. My friend Mrs. Maugery bought a pamphlet that once belonged to you, too. It is called 'Was There a Burning Bush? A Defense of Moses and the Ten Commandments'. She liked your margin note, "Word of God or crowd control???" Did you ever decide which?
Mary Ann Shaffer
#19. The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal," "Thou shalt not commit adultery," and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
George Carlin
#20. Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#21. I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.
Ronald Reagan
#22. We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
James Madison
#23. Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
Rudyard Kipling
#24. A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
Harry Truman
#25. Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn't defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.
Gena Showalter
#26. Another question a biblically literate reporter might have asked is, "Why are you proclaiming the Ten Commandments when you believe no one can live up to all of them?"
Cal Thomas
#27. I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
Gary Bauer
#28. I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on.
Steve Martin
#29. As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I'd keep the code a secret. As I've known for a long, long time now, hell is going to be totally fucking worth it.
Sarah Royal
#31. If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Charles Morgan
#32. Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
Charles Dudley Warner
#33. Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.
Roy Moore
#34. Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God ... For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.
Martin Luther
#35. The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole
#36. The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
David Josiah Brewer
#37. You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#38. People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
Judy Martz
#39. Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant - they're quite clear - that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments.
Sarah Palin
#40. The idea of "Ten Commandments" is a deeply compelling one. It combines two impulses that are ingrained in our nature as human beings: making lists of ten things, and telling other people how to behave.
Sean Carroll
#41. Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
Bill O'Reilly
#42. No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#43. 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 Ten Commandments.
Randall Terry
#44. If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
Malcolm Bradbury
#45. 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 ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer
#46. 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 character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.
Michelle Malkin
#47. In fact the whole of two-faced society paid only lip service to the ten commandments and committed adultery, stole, and cheated at cards, because, after all, it was only the eleventh commandment that mattered - Thou Shalt Not Get Found Out.
Marion Chesney
#48. I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
Yvonne De Carlo
#49. Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
P. J. O'Rourke
#50. 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 them."
James Keller
#51. I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#52. Hollywood got into the act, with director Cecil B. DeMille helping erect literally thousands of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments across the nation as part of a promotional campaign for his blockbuster film of the same name.
Kevin M. Kruse
#53. The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.
Bertrand Russell
#54. Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry
#55. Why, then, do the Ten Commandments include a law that prohibits a thought? Because it is coveting that so often leads to evil. Or, to put it another way, coveting is what leads to violating the preceding four commandments - the ones against murder, adultery, stealing, and perjury.
Dennis Prager
#56. The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.
Billy Graham
#57. Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.
Felix Wantang
#58. I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don't know the difference and we're seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.
Billy Graham
#59. The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#60. All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.
Roy Moore
#61. Big's voice trumpets, as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight, even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way.
Jandy Nelson
#62. What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
Gary North
#63. Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.
Barack Obama
#64. Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
Will Rogers
#65. 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
#66. Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#67. I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
Ronald Reagan
#68. The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.
Roy Moore
#69. The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.
Colin S. Smith
#70. The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Valentina Tereshkova
#71. 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 of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.
Roger Williams
#72. Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion ... Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions ... The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.
John Adams
#73. You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'
Jay Leno
#74. Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.
Felix Wantang
#75. How much do you know about the Ten Commandments?"
"Well, I know there's ten of them." ----- Daniel and Lucas
K.L. Burrell
#76. There cannot possibly be any solidly grounded hope of a genuine revival of godliness among believers and of morality among unbelievers until the Ten Commandments are again given their proper place in our affections, thoughts, and lives.
Arthur W. Pink
#77. Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility (The Ten Commandments, 10).
J. Douma
#78. With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.
Dennis Prager
#79. When you etch your moral code in stone, you have no room for editing. You leave open the possibility that, as our ethical views evolve, your code becomes less relevant. You could find yourself with four of ten divine moral laws describing how to treat God and zero that prohibit rape or slavery.
David G. McAfee
#80. I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#81. The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.
Kinky Friedman
#82. I am saying to you that to me the Constitution of the United States is just as much from my Heavenly Father as the Ten Commandments
George Albert Smith
#83. Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.
Robert Breault
#84. In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
Jefferson Smith
#87. Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
Josh Billings
#88. The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.
Roy Moore
#89. Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?
Colin S. Smith
#90. Our code of conduct is definitive; it is not negotiable. It is found not only in the Ten Commandments but also in the Sermon on the Mount, given to us by the Savior when He walked upon the earth. It is found throughout His teachings. It is found in the words of modern revelation.
Thomas S. Monson
#91. Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#93. 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 other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.
Noah Webster
#94. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#95. DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
Ambrose Bierce
#96. The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
Maurice Strong
#97. We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
James Madison
#98. Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create ...
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
Billy Wilder
#100. The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ...
Adolf Hitler
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