“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”

“The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust.”

Christine O'Donnell (1969) American Tea Party politician and former Republican Party candidate

“To commit adultery with God is the perfect experience for which the world was created.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”

Michael Crichton book Jurassic Park

“In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.”

Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics

“The conscience is a dilemma for the believer in evolution. He doesn't know why it exists. Neither do the experts. Why would evolution create something that tells us that it's wrong to lie, to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery? Was primitive man committing these sins before he evolved a conscience? If he wasn't, why didn't his conscience evolve? If he was, why did the conscience evolve?”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

“In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it."”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died…”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl