Ought Quotes

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream.

I'd follow three simple rules: 1) Never go within two kilometres of circus freaks. 2) Never go near the butcher shop in Dublith. 3) Always spend under 300 sen on snacks. That ought to keep me alive!

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more.

The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

They ought to create a new league for that guy.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I think the American people ought to take their democracy back.

I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

I think people who go to a psychiatrist ought to have their heads examined.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won.