They Ought Quotes

205 They Ought quotes by 169 unique authors

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They… — Daniel Pauly
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a… — Joseph Hume
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
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
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
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do. — Mencius
The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every… — Noah Webster
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. — Jimmy Connors
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue;… — Edmund Burke
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. — John Lukacs
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against… — Francis Atterbury
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to the subject… — Diane Coyle
To be shockingly original with your first novel, you don’t have to discover a new technique: Simply write about people as they are and not… — John Braine
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind… — Ferdinand Mount
We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are the people who… — Ron Paul
The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they… — Thomas Jefferson
If universities want to save a little money, they ought to make some cutbacks in administration and in faculty people who teach one class a… — Bobby Knight
[W]hile people are making a big fuss over Gruber's calling Americans stupid, they ought to be far more outraged that he admitted the administration purposefully… — David Limbaugh
The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to.… — H. L. Mencken
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what… — Arthur Bryant
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it. — Woodrow Wilson
Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were. — Aristotle
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. — Oliver Goldsmith

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