Should Quotes

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

We recognize the chicken as another conscious being. It's different from us, but it has a life, and if something is really important for that chicken, if it would work hard to try to get it, and if we can give it without sacrificing something that's really important to us, then we should.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.