Ought Quotes

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.