The Ten Commandments Quotes
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I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.
— Colin S. Smith
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
— Randall Terry
As ancient Israel had removed the Ten Commandments from its national consciousness, so America did likewise, removing the Ten Commandments from
— Jonathan Cahn
![The Ten Commandments Quotes By P.G. Wodehouse: [I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-ten-commandments-quotes-by-p-g-wodehouse-1470917.jpg "The Ten Commandments Quotes By P.G. Wodehouse: [I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.")
[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments.
— P.G. Wodehouse
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
— Anatole France
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.
— Richard Dawkins
The Beatitudes correspond to the Decalogue, with blessings in lieu of the forbidden.
— James Mikolajczyk
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
![The Ten Commandments Quotes By John Quincy Adams: The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/the-ten-commandments-quotes-by-john-quincy-adams-344482.jpg "The Ten Commandments Quotes By John Quincy Adams: The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments]")
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
— John Quincy Adams
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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
With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.
— Dennis Prager
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
— Ted Koppel
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
— Maurice Strong
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
— Ronald Reagan
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
What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
— Gary North
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ...
— Adolf Hitler
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
— James Madison
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
— Tracy Morgan
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
— Jefferson Smith
The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".
— Laura C. Schlessinger
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
— Mordecai Richler
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.
— Frederick Lenz
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
— John Phillips Marquand
Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.
— Randall Terry
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.
— Robert Breault
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.
— Josh Billings
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.
— H.L. Mencken
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
Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.
— Felix Wantang
If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'
— Robert Townsend
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
How much do you know about the Ten Commandments?""Well, I know there's ten of them." ----- Daniel and Lucas — K.L. Burrell
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
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.
— Thomas Reed
The Ten Commandments are the lowest possible standard of humane living.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
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
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
My eleventh commandment is to make sure I follow the first ten.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
— Malcolm Bradbury
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
— G.K. Chesterton
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create ...
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
— Pat Riley
I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday ... unless there's a game on.
— Steve Martin
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
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
People who are offended by the Ten Commandments have a deeper problem than the stone that it's written on, I think.
— Judy Martz
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
— Edwin Louis Cole
Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
— Billy Wilder
Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David
— Joseph Heller
Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
— Cliff Stearns
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.
— Bertrand Russell
Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.
— Felix Wantang
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
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