Quotes of: Ought Keyword

I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives.

Scott Tipton

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

Mortimer Adler

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

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

Mahatma Gandhi

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.

Margaret Spellings

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Albert Barnes

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Lord Acton

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Pope John Paul II

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.

Henry Ford

Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

Leland Stanford

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

James Weldon Johnson

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Emma Goldman

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Ernest Holmes

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

Mary Harris Jones

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.

Thomas Paine

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Bill Watterson

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Jerry Springer

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Edmund Burke