Quotes About You Shall Not Covet

#1. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus Christ

#2. Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.

Saint Patrick

#3. "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.

John Shelby Spong

#4. Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

Leon Kass

#5. The person who has the throne will not covet a position of civil or police authority.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. We are a happy people, content with what life has given us. We don't covet anything that others have. And we are happy with who we are.

Morgan Rice

#7. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand

#8. The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.

Hubert Burda

#9. In fact, there was a sort of satisfaction and pride in knowing that Kiki was his. Other men could look, they could envy, they could even covet, but she was going home with him. Every. Time.

Genevieve Dewey

#10. Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

John Chamberlain

#11. To love your brother is to covet not what is his own

Sunday Adelaja

#12. ...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

Karen Baker-Fletcher

#13. We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.

Menachem Begin

#14. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

W.C. Fields

#15. It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

John Piper

#16. My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Horatio Nelson

#17. There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and belting out, "Booga-wooga!"
At least Eddie laughed. Adrian flipped Jim the bird and headed to the fridge for another beer.

J.R. Ward