Top 20 Shalt Quotes

‘Thou shalt not get found out’ is not one of God’s commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

‘Thou shalt not bore’ is a commandment that should be at the centre of our ambitions.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots – that is, the not harming others – and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

Teach thy tongue to say ‘I do not know’, and thou shalt progress.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, ‘Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.’ There’s huge continuing pressure on the food companies.

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I’d heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously – especially the Ten Commandments – and wondering how ‘Thou shalt not kill’ could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

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

Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of ‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.’

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

The commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ does not say it’s O.K. to kill some people and not others.

Somewhere in the Commandments of Reviewing must be written, ‘Thou shalt not compare Asians to non-Asians.’

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.