Ought Quotes

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer to it, which is independent of our thought and conceptualisation.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

It is easy to make excuses when we ought to be making opportunities.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

It is not the ought-ness of the problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.

The microspeed of the tongue ought to be always slightly less than the microspeed of the thoughts and certainly not ever the reverse.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Peace is serenity.

Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them.

Whatever ought to be, can be.