“Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.”
Source: The Tempest
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 206
Context: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
“If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
To The New York Legal Aid Society (16 February 1951).
Extra-judicial writings
Ben Salmon (1889–1932) American activist
Letter To President Wilson http://archive.org/details/LetterToWilson1917 (June 5, 1917) by Ben Salmon <br class="br">Context: Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. … The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. … When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.
Leonard Bacon (1802–1881) American Congregational preacher and writer.
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
“Tell not abroad what thou intendest to do; for if thou speed not, thou shalt be mocked!”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
"The Ten Commandments"
Complaints and Grievances (2001)
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Vous tenez à l’exemple [de la peine de mort]. Pourquoi? Pour ce qu’il enseigne. Que voulez-vous enseigner avec votre exemple? Qu’il ne faut pas tuer. Et comment enseignez-vous qu’il ne faut pas tuer? En tuant. <br class="br"> "Plaidoyer contre la peine de mort" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Plaidoyer_contre_la_peine_de_mort_-_Victor_Hugo [An argument against the death penalty], Assemblée Constituante, Paris (15 September 1848)
Lev Shestov (1866–1938) Russian theologian
Source: In Job's Balances: on the sources of the eternal truths, On The Philosophy of History p. 247