Ought Quotes

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

We ought to disarm Germany completely.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.