Ought Quotes

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.