Quotes of Mose - somelinesforyou

“ It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge? ”

- Unknown

“ Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ”

- Pope Paul VI

“ The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a State-builder. ”

- Daniel De Leon

“ Moses had a very bad stammer. Aaron often had to speak for Moses when he was in front of the pharaoh and could not articulate. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya. ”

- Walter Kaufmann

“ Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. ”

- Charles Morgan

“ Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! ”

- Golda Meir

“ We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ I am not a… leader. I don't want you to follow me or anything else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the… wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ”

- Eugene V. Debs
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