Ten Commandments Quotes - Page 2

• I remember when Ronald Reagan was president he said 'if the American people obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule we wouldn't have any problems.' The first time I heard him say it I thought, 'That's too simplistic.' There are complicated problems back there. But you analyze it, he's right.

  Bill Bright

  People, President, Golden

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• 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

  Men, Two, Fellow Man

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.296

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• 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

  Love, Family, Children

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• Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

  Cliff Stearns

  Atheist, Appreciate, Historical

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• The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Paper, Examination, Six

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• The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religion, Should, Nations

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• No, this is not what a fair God would do. And why does it not say anywhere in the Bible that slavery is wrong? It only says that you should treat your slaves well. Well, I don't care if you treat them well. How is it possible that it is not immoral to own another person? Why isn't that one of the Ten Commandments? 'Thou shalt not own another person.' You want to sit here and tell me that fornication is worse than owning someone?

  Mira Sorvino

  Want, Doe, Slavery

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• When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women--or anyone--as chattel or inferior beings.

  Katha Pollitt

  God, Country, Children

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• America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

  Anatole France

  Law, America, Thanks

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• 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

  Christian, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• 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

  Good Life, Guides, I Can

  "Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible" by Richard Dawkins, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

  Noah Webster

  Law, Two, Stones

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.39

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• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  Otto Rank

  Family, Wife, Coveting

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• 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

  Community, Foundation, Earth

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• Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

  Ben Shapiro

  Government, Long, Care

  "SHAPIRO: Why Socialism Is on the Rise". www.truthrevolt.org. January 8, 2014.

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• 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

  Fudge, Stealing, Vain

  James Russell Lowell (1911). “The poetical works”

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• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

  Donny Osmond

  Mean, Important, Deities

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• The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Suggestions, Suggestion Boxes

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• The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

  Roy Moore

  Law, Ten, Commandments

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. December 16, 2002.

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• The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, People, Needs

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• 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

  Law, Negative, Purpose

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• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Suggestions, Liberalism, Ifs

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• If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Two, Literature, Might

  "The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

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• If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, People, Generations

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• You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Christian, Jesus, School

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