Ought Quotes · Page 18

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

— Epictetus

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

— Demosthenes

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

— Francis Asbury

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

— Aristotle

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.

— Edwin Newman

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

— Barry Goldwater

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

— Jane Austen

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to…

— Les Aspin

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting…

— Lord Chesterfield

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

— Miguel de Cervantes

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because…

— Aristotle

The philosophy of reasoning, to be complete, ought to comprise the theory of bad as well as of good reasoning.

— John Stuart Mill

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I…

— John McCain

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience…

— William of Ockham

Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have…

— Indira Gandhi

We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all…

— Frances Brooke

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our…

— Mohsin Hamid

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that…

— Pat Toomey

What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will…

— Alfred North Whitehead

We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and…

— Aristotle

The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…

— Charles Lyell

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said,…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters…

— Steven Moffat

There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication…

— James Madison

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is…

— Cato the Younger

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

— Edmund Burke

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

— John Dunning

You need not value it yourself if you do not wish to; but you ought to allow it to us who do…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

— Jamaica Kincaid

Don't fake enthusiasms. Say what you think, not what you think you ought to think.

— Darcy O'Brien

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

— William Henry Maule

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

— James Madison

I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over.

— George C. Wallace