Ought Quotes

2904 Ought quotes by 1598 unique authors

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device… — Catherine Booth
Those who cannot help ought also not advise: in an order where every mousehole has been plugged, mere advice exactly equals condemnation. — Theodor Adorno
If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If… — Royden G. Derrick
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth… — John Boorman
If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation… — Betty Dodson
When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder,… — C L R James
It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained… — Victor Serge
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing… — John Nelson Darby
Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean… — Anthony Gregory
Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit.… — J. D. Greear
You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue. — Johnny Isakson
The way things are does not determine the way they ought to be — Michael Sandel
I was wrong. Those days are over and they ought to be over. — George C. Wallace
It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought… — Jesse Ball
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is… — Matt Chandler
If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work. — Marie Dressler
Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's… — Mary Renault
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for… — Antonya Nelson
A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. — Hector Hugh Munro
Be easier on yourself, on everyone, on everything. Suspend your judgments on the way things should be, must be, and ought to be. Suspending judgments… — Peter McWilliams
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. — Richard Stallman
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought… — Richard Stallman
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be… — Leland Stanford

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