Richard Dawkins Quotes

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

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

I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

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.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

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

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

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.

[Even] The Pope can't repeal the Decalogue [the Ten Commandments].

Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

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?"

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.