Katha Pollitt Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: b. October 14, 1949
Birthday: October 14
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.
topic: Country, Children, War, Ten Commandments, Wife Beating, Commandments
