“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.” — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
A sustained engagement with the world, a sense of how it was and how it ought to be, and what has been… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,'… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue. — Johnny Isakson Copy Share Image
When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may… — Mark E. Hyman Copy Share Image
Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Wikileaks is a democratizing force. Its giving individuals access to decisions and thinking by their representatives and in a democracy that ought… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
When a believer has crossed into the domain of the spiritual he daily ought to maintain a combat attitude in his spirit,… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
