The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly. — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even if nothing worse than wasted mental effort could be laid to the charge of theology, that alone ought to be sufficient… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature… So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The minute you use the drugs, and you do something that interferes with the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens… My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in… — Kurt Schmoke Copy Share Image
My husband says, 'Roseanne, don't you think we ought to talk about our sexual problems?' Like I'm gonna turn off Wheel of… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do think that people ought to have some control over their money, rather than the government, just mandating to them how… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in… — Mike Lowry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel tired and think I ought to give it up, I don't want to just retire. No, I enjoy it… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what… — Mary Carolyn Davies Copy Share Image
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern… — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female. — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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