Ought Quotes

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.

People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying.

We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.

In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.

But in philosophy, sometimes the baby ought to go out with the bath water.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.

Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His shameful actions toward Humanity.

Mankind are very odd creatures: one half censure what they practice, the other half practice what they censure; the rest always say and do as they ought.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.

Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

One of the reasons that I'm a lurker on Twitter is that every time I tweet an idea, I feel like I'm delivering something to the competition that I ought to be giving to a reporter here.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

I'm pro-life but I believe that the federal government ought to stay out of it. That's a decision that the people of each state ought to make for themselves.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a week.

You ought to know that the Lord loves you. He will make that known to you, and it will be a very private and individual experience, something you cannot explain to anyone else.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.