Top 15 Shalt Quotes

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

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.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

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 give birth reluctantly.

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

The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, ‘Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.’

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

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

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

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

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.’