Quotes About Decalogue

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

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

In decreeing the Decalogue, moreover, YHWH bypasses Moses to address the people as a whole, communicating his will to them in quasi-democratic openness, without the need for any royal or prophetic intermediary. That is not only without precedent in the history of religion; it is also unparalleled in the Hebrew Bible. God's proclamation of the Decalogue accordingly lies at the heart of the theme of revelation.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat. - Arthur Hugh Clough 'The Latest Decalogue' Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt. - Tacitus Aricola,

According to the legal historian Akhil Reed Amar, before the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1868, "the Supreme Court never—not once—referred to the 1792 decalogue as 'the' or 'a' bill of rights.