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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
The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion. -- Pat Riley
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 have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. -- Edwin Louis Cole
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
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
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
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
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall. -- Randall Terry
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. -- Ronald Reagan
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. -- Zig Ziglar
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. -- Malcolm Bradbury
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. -- Robert Breault
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. -- Isadora Duncan
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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
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
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. -- Billy Wilder
The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality. -- Pat Robertson
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. -- John Phillips Marquand
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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
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
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
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
I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography. -- Ian Fleming
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
The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law. -- Roy Moore
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. -- Josh Billings
I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. -- John Phillips Marquand
Somebody figured it out- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments. -- Earl Wilson
If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.' -- Robert Townsend
The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back. -- Kinky Friedman
Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create... -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39. -- Tom Lantos
The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I favor candidates who are biblically oriented, who hold the views of the Ten Commandments. -- Bill Bright
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. -- Charles Dudley Warner
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments. -- Anatole France
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart. -- James Madison
What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. -- Gary North
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion. -- Cliff Stearns
Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark. -- John Bright
If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments. -- Thomas Reed
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. -- Bertrand Russell
Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues. -- Roy Moore
Every morning as I read the scripture, every night, I quote the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule. -- Bill Bright
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments. -- Maurice Strong
The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman. -- H. L. Mencken
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. -- Jefferson Smith
The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven -- Norris Cotton
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. -- Tracy Morgan
The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law. -- Cecil B. DeMille
The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms. -- Fob James
All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that. -- Roy Moore
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. -- John Quincy Adams
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
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
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream? -- Randall Terry
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
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
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
Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Neal A. Maxwell
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
There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states. -- Phyllis Schlafly
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
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
The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood. -- Will Rogers
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 S. Truman
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion. -- Carol P. Christ
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
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
We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow. -- Lech Walesa
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
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
Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published. -- Robert Orben
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo. -- Jim Goad
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
Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings. -- Neale Donald Walsch
In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments. -- David Barton
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
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. -- Christopher Hitchens
When our atheistically dominated Supreme Court removed the Ten Commandments from our halls, not a whimper was heard from the 95 million Christians in this country, who still don't realize that their religious freedoms are being systematically removed without a fight. -- Tim LaHaye
I consider it my duty to acknowledge God. To take down the Ten Commandments and to stop holding prayer would be a violation of that duty. I will not take down the Ten Commandments and I will not stop holding prayer. -- Roy Moore
Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty. -- John Hagee
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
Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism. -- Camille Paglia
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. -- Elmer Bernstein
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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
When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. -- Cliff Stearns
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
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
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
As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments. -- Kevin DeYoung
I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful. -- Robert H. Schuller
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
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The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127) -- Swami Satchidananda
Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments. -- Felix Wantang
Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments. -- Felix Wantang
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... -- Adolf Hitler
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict? -- Douglas Coupland
The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth. -- DMX
[I'm] as broke as the ten commandments. -- P. G. Wodehouse
There are ten commandments, I've only broken three. -- Courtney Love
The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood". -- Laura Schlessinger
The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion. -- John Adams
I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. -- Ted Koppel
I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on. -- Steve Martin
Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies. -- Randall Terry
[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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