Today’s quotes deal with the 6th Commandment of the 10 Commandments, something I wrote about yesterday, where I expressed my gratitude for never having taken a life thus far in this existence…
‘“Thou shalt not kill” does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.’ (Leo Tolstoy)
“The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.” (Sigmund Freud)
“I don’t remember Moses writing, ‘Thou shalt not kill…unless you think you have a good reason.” (Willie Nelson)
“Does the commandment ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill” mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning ‘Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,’ or “Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so?” (Linus Pauling)
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson
