Ought Quotes

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

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

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

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.

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

I've worried more and more as the years have gone on. The more you're seen to be doing well, the more stress there is. You feel you ought to consider things more, and be more fussy - there's further to fall. All these little worries.