Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no… — Pope John Paul II
Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it. — John Wayne
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest… — Robert Adams
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that… — Pete Gill
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in… — Eugene Delacroix
We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;… — Peter Singer
There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help. — Jane Austen
Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant… — James Freeman Clarke
Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought… — Saint Augustine
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be. — Albert Einstein
...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. — John Stuart Mill
If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion. — Charles R. Swindoll
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored — John Anderson
Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of… — David Icke
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come… — Martin Luther
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a… — Eduardo Galeano
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost… — Mark Twain
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to. — John Green
I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on… — Mark Victor Hansen
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world. — John Gummer
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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