Ought Quotes

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 anything under the pretext of simplicity.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

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.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

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.