Ought Quotes

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.

I think students ought to have the right to protest, but not to the point of anarchy.

We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

We ought at all times to be very careful that high-mindedness shall never have place in our hearts.

I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes and duties.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

In America we believe there ought to be limits on government.

The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

Every philosophical review ought to be a philosophy of reviews at the same time.

Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.

The discovery of God begins at understanding that He ought to exist, and ends at knowing how He could exist.

I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison

There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.

A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.

I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?