Should Quotes

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

There's no reason why I should retire.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.