Ought Quotes

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?