Ought Quotes

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If God has given graces to some good women, revealing to them something holy and good through His Holy Scriptures, should they, for the sake… — Unknown Author
We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization. — Havelock Ellis
Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet. — Vespasian
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be… — Thomas Szasz
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's… — Geoffrey Fisher
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 discipline… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on… — Bridget of Sweden
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never… — Prince Charles
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used,… — Jimmy Carter
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream… — Jesse Jackson
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they… — Edmund Burke
We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to… — Winston Churchill
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can… — Annie Besant
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell
We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy. — George W. Bush
...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,… — Al Gore
In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue… — George Muller
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but… — Lactantius
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

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