Katha Pollitt Quote

When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted—anything!—the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great missed moral opportunities of all time. How different history would have been had he clearly and unmistakably forbidden war, tyranny, taking over other people's countries, slavery, exploitation of workers, cruelty to children, wife-beating, stoning, treating women—or anyone—as chattel or inferior beings.

Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (ed. Random House, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307432858