Quotes about Commandment

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Moses

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

Theodore Roosevelt

Thou Shalt Not Steal!

Both the Republican and Democratic Parties were ripe with graft—the Democrats in control of many large city machines and the Republicans getting bribes and “donations” from the corporations.

Theodore Roosevelt

The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

Yul Brynner

So it shall be written. So it shall be done.

Gaspar de Cordoba

When I ordered my royal penitent to do or to leave undone anything, under penalty of mortal sin, I was obeyed;

Sometimes referred to as Gaspar de Toledo. This quotation Illustrates one of the ways that Churches maintained power over the secular government even though they were supposedly separate. By maintaining control over the secular leaders consciences and sense of morality, the Church could control the secular government. In this particular historical case, there was not even a supposed separation. The Confessor had an ex officio role in the high council. See {629457}.

Joan of Arc

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

Lynn Schusterman

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

Meister Eckhart

This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

Albert Schweitzer

We are compelled by the commandment of love contained in our hearts and thought, and proclaimed by Jesus, to give rein to our natural sympathy for animals. We are also compelled to help them and spare them suffering.

Jill Ellis

A rule is a rule.

George Harrison

Love one another (His last words)

Arthur Desmond

He who saith “thou shalt” to me is my mortal foe.

This was written under the name of Ragnar Redbeard. There are a few scholars who believe that it was written by Jack London, but most credit Desmond.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think.
But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed.
The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power is the ability to get things done.

Kamisese Mara

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Albert Einstein

The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.

Brigham Young

Some of you may ask, 'Is there a single ordinance to be dispensed with? Is there one of the commandments that God has enjoined upon the people, that he will excuse them from obeying?' Not one, no matter how trifling or small in our own estimation. No matter if we esteem them non-essential, or least or last of all the commandments of the house of God, we are under obligation to observe them.

John Calvin

Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

Sun Myung Moon

The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done.

Berthold Auerbach

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

Elie Wiesel

The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

Seth Grahame-Smith

So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.

Otto Rank

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

Dorothy Day

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

Commandment Quotes