Action Quote by Annie Besant

I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.

— Charles Darwin

“What you did was to draw a conclusion from a descriptive sentence--That person wants to live too'--to what we call a normative sentence: 'Therefore…

— Jostein Gaarder

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

— Frank Delaney

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

— Pythagoras

If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to…

— Peter Singer

I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a true answer…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

— Bertrand Russell

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

— Audrey Hepburn

“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem…

— Clarice Lispector

For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“To act morally is not to act out of fear of punishment; it is not to act as one is commanded to act. Rather,…

— Steven M. Cahn