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title: "5 Ought Speak Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Giving children the sense that you always ought to speak up for what's right, even if it costs you something, that's something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-nussbaum/giving-children-the-sense-that-you-always-ought-to-speak-up-for-what/)

[Martha Nussbaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-nussbaum/)

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> [I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/i-was-stupid-enough-to-think-that-we-ought-to-speak-the-truth-about/)

[Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/)

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> [If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/if-there-is-a-category-of-human-being-for-whom-his-work-ought-to/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-cecil/if-there-is-any-person-to-whom-you-feel-a-dislike-that-is-the-person/)

[Richard Cecil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-cecil/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d31/richard-cecil-13011_dislike_if-there-is-any-person-to-whom-you-feel_2495560.jpg)

> [I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-pinter/i-ought-not-to-speak-about-the-dead-because-the-dead-are-all-over-the/)

[Harold Pinter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-pinter/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36c/harold-pinter-3125_dead_i-ought-not-to-speak-about-the-dead-beca_3235151.png)

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