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Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
jesus christ— 19:18–19 (KJV).
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
Djuna Barnes— Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. In the end, Religion will kill us all.
ed krebs— Had Enough Religious Bullshit, Ed Krebs' site.
Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God, my Father! Take me, and do with me as Thou seest to be for Thy glory. I consecrate myself forever to Thy service, and trust for acceptance in the merits of Thy Son.
samuel i. prime— P. 231. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?
fyodor dostoevsky— Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
warren farrell— p. 221. (Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex)
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.
viktor schauberger— Viktor Schauberger, 1933 - Implosion Magazine, No. 2, p. 23. (Callum Coats: The Fertile Earth)
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
edward coke— Edward Coke, Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612), 5 Rep. 303; 10 Rep. 32 b.
South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, more than double that of the United States. According to one recent OECD report, [South] Korea had bucked a trend of falling suicide rates among developed nations, with suicide rising to become the fourth most common cause of death. Unlike most other countries, South Koreans actually become more likely to commit suicide as they age.
— Adam Taylor, "South Korea’s ferry tragedy touches on country’s suicide epidemic" (18 April 2014), The Washington Post
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state’s laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.
— “That Spot of Bother on the Border,” WorldNetDaily.com, May 4, 2007.
I shall add that only he who has decided to commit suicide can start a nuclear war in the hope of emerging a victor from it. No matter what the attacker might possess, no matter what method of unleashing nuclear war he chooses, he will not attain his aims. Retribution will inevitably ensue.
— As quoted in Soviet Strategy and the New Military Thinking (1992) by Derek Leebaert and Timothy Dickinson, p. 68
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Thou shalt not lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
George carlin
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time. Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you. That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 5:27-8.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving thegoal, beforethisdecadeisout, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
— 1961 State of the Union message to Congress, May.
The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact that is, never say anything.
f. r. leavis—
It's like an act of murder; you play with intent to commit something.
duke ellington— On jazz [[New York Herald Tribune (9 July 1961)
I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.
louis macneice— "Prayer Before Birth", line 11
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
og mandino— Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91
There are crimes I don’t commit mainly because I don’t want to find out I could.
james richardson— #124 (Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001))
Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you opportunity to commit more.
mark twain— More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a President of the United States.
Alexander Hamilton— No. 75
People who try to commit suicide don't attempt to save them! China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
Mao Tse-tung— As quoted in Mao's Last Revolution (2006) by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, ISBN 0674023323
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.
jean-paul sartre— Act 10, sc. 4
Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty .
— James A. Garfield, Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (4 July 1865).
People who try to commit suicide don't attempt to save them!:;.:;.:;. China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
— Mao Zedong, as quoted in Mao's Last Revolution (2006) by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, ISBN 0674023323
The laws of [false utility] are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator?
— Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, 1764, Chapter 40 [1], this has sometimes been wrongly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson transcribed this passage (in the original Italian) in his Legal Commonplace Book, item 828.
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
— p. 36; as cited in: Ruth Marie Griffith (2008) American Religions: A Documentary History. p. 137
Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty.
james a. garfield— James A. Garfield, Oration delivered at Ravenna, Ohio (4 July 1865)
Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope; Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth,Coleridge, Southey; Because the first is crazed beyond all hope, The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouthey: With Crabbe it may be difficult to cope, And Campbell's Hippocrene is somewhat drouthy: Thou shalt not steal from Samuel Rogers, nor commit flirtation with the muse of Moore.
Rochdale— 1819-24 Don Juan, canto1, stanza 205.
