Commandments Quotes

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.

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.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

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.

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.

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

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

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.

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

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

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.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

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

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.

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.

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

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.