Commandments Quotes

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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

- Billy Wilder

I said to this priest: `Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?` He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.

- Diana Dors

I said to this priest: `Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?` He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.

- Diana Dors

My son said, `Mother you can`t say the word bigot because that has to do with nationalities and things.` I said, `No darling, it`s a verb. It means I can`t stand these people who are trying to take the Ten Commandments off the wall, take prayer out of school and take prayer out of football games.` It`s too ridiculous. The Lord put this country together or we wouldn`t be like we are.

- Jane Russell

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

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

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

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 were not a suggestion.

- Pat Riley

The films should be influenced by the individual commandments to the same degree that the commandments influence our daily lives.

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

Well, that`s the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues.

- Roy Moore

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

- Roy Moore

Also, in a deeper sense, the Ten Commandments are the basis of our freedom of conscience, which flows from the first table of the law.

- Roy Moore

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

- Roy Moore

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn`t have had the Ten Commandments - we`d have the Ten Suggestions.

- Malcolm Bradbury

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

- Tom Lantos

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.

- Alan Lloyd

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.

- Alan Lloyd

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

- Alan Lloyd

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

- Alberto Bernal

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

- Alex Hertenstein

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

- Alex Hume

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work--or worry.

- Alex Rozanski

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?

- Amy Newman

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

- Amy Newman

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

- Amy Newman

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.

- Amy Newman