Ought Quotes

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It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we… — Jacques Ellul
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get… — Ivy Baker Priest
I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on… — Peter Singer
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… — Charles Darwin
He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that. — Thomas Jefferson
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making… — Willa Cather
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about. — Raymond Carver
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet… — Ernest Hemingway
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — Anton Chekhov
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building. — George W. Bush
Young people ought not to be idle, it is very bad for them. — Margaret Thatcher
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation… — Paul Wellstone
Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked… — Thomas Jefferson
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could… — Peter Lynch

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