Thou Shalt Not Kill Quotes

#1. 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.

W.C. Fields

#3. The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Marvin Harris

#4. The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

Sigmund Freud

#5. Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.

Gary Yourofsky

#6. it is said 'thou shalt not kill,' is he to be killed because he murdered some one else? No, it is not right, it's an impossible theory. I

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born;

Anonymous

#8. Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#9. The sixth commandment - 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' - fascinated me ... I always knew that some day I should defy it.

John Christie

#10. For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me ... remember, you've broken three [of the 10 Commandments], let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill.

Glenn Beck

#11. The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.

Albert Einstein

#12. What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'

Pope Pius XI

#13. If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it ...

William Faulkner

#14. Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#15. The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

John Marsden

#16. Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Alice Walker

#17. There is one Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick ... 'Thou shalt not kill.' That is clear enough ... 'Thou shalt not kill' says you shall not kill your neighbor no matter how you feel about him.

Seth

#18. Is it not laughable that we believe in a sacred,infrangible law - thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not kill - in an existence characterized by perpetual lying and perpetual murder?

Albert Camus

#19. Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?

Linus Pauling

#20. I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Willie Nelson

#21. The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. I've been at stand-up for years: after a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

Emo Philips

#23. The good thing about living like me is everywhere you go is a step up.

Craig Benzine

#24. Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays

Friedrich Schiller

#25. CLOWN. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.

William Shakespeare

#26. The most valuable things you have money cannot buy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. She sins with poets through pure love of wit

Alexander Pope

#28. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel

#30. And I can tell you God makes us how he needs us to be.

Wiley Cash

#31. One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.

Guy Oseary

#32. The society is the enemy when it imposes its structures on the individual.
On the dragon there are many scales. Every one of them says "Thou Shalt."
Kill the dragon "Thou Shalt."
When one has killed that dragon, one has become The Child.

Joseph Campbell

#33. If you have no shame, and it's your goal to get people into bed, how much higher could your success rate possibly be?

Stephen Malkmus

#34. Cut the sarcasm or I'll cut you

Maya Banks

#35. Sometimes I get a little nervous about wearing white.

Danielle Panabaker

#36. Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.

Maya Banks

#37. Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

Edward Abbey