Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself. — Diana Wynne Jones
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And American literature should… — Paula Gunn Allen
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him… — William Graham Sumner
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it… — William Graham Sumner
Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned… — George Soros
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of… — William Rehnquist
Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. — Russell Conwell
Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent. — Jim Rohn
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. — Thomas Carlyle
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? — Lewis Carroll
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! — Lewis Carroll
The women of the Green Belt Movement have learned about the causes and the symptoms of environmental degradation. They have begun to appreciate that they,… — Wangari Maathai
I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. — Diogenes
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its… — Grover Cleveland
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them.… — Harry S. Truman
We are met today in a general conference. Sometimes, I hear, the people feel, some of them, that perhaps we are not quite as "peppy"… — J. Reuben Clark
A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the… — James Keller
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought… — Noah Webster
When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve not to be… — Samuel Palmer
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would… — Martin Rees
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. — Agnes Repplier
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything,… — Erich Fromm
We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and… — Theodore M. Burton

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