Ought Quotes · Page 27

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

— Arthur W. Pink

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

— Josephus Daniels

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

— Pliny the Younger

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

— Margaret Spellings

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

— Anthony Trollope

No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be.

— Christopher Vokes

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

— Thomas Jefferson

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

— Aristotle

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market…

— Bill Gates

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in…

— Mike Lowry

The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

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

— William Howard Taft

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and…

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how…

— Saxby Chambliss

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we…

— Ben Okri

I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft,…

— Douglas Conant

The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more…

— Martin Luther

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because…

— George Bernard Shaw

Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn…

— Peter Medawar

The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business…

— Claud Cockburn

In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act…

— Thomas Reid

To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day. Touched by the family, cuddled…

— Daphne Sheldrick

Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the…

— Bertrand Russell

It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should…

— George Washington

The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life…

— Saint Basil

The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares…

— Malcolm X

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your…

— Epictetus

Kant does not think that along with choice of an action we also choose in each case the motive from which we…

— Allen W. Wood

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to…

— Abraham Lincoln

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the…

— James Madison

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

— Thomas Carlyle

“If you ought to pass through a mist, first think of the ground, then of the sky.”

— Florin-Marian Hera

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

— Paul Valery

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

— Fidel Castro

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

— Harry Crews

If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for…

— Dwight L. Moody

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

— George Fordyce

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

— Hugh Walpole