Ought Quotes

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

We ought to affirm the fact that hundreds of thousands if not millions of Iranians are risking their liberty and even perhaps their lives to take a stand for the values upon which we have really founded this nation.

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.