Ought Quotes

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.

Wrinkles ought to be worn as a badge of honour, as a mark of survival if not wisdom.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

In terms of worship, I think we ought to have the right people leading.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.

But I think schools also ought to be fair to all views. Because, frankly, Darwinism is not an established scientific fact. It is a theory of evolution, that's why it's called the theory of evolution.

We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

The internet, since it is publicly created, ought to be publicly controlled.

Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.

"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.

Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.

I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anyone can get any benefit from it.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.