Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any… — George Mason Copy Share Image
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have… — John Raese Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Prices don't merely reflect what people think things ought to cost today; they also reflect what people expect items to cost tomorrow. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected;… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't.… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
