Quotes of: Ought Keyword

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

Peter Marshall

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Rene Descartes

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

Sue Johanson

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

Saul Perlmutter

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Paine

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

Mary Astell

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Mary Lyon

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

Robert Reich

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

Vita Sackville-West

Generals aren't in the business of commenting on the correctness or incorrectness of the President's decisions. Anybody who thinks he should be able to do that ought to be fired on the spot.

Norman Schwarzkopf

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

John Locke

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Steve Chabot

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

Steven Soderbergh

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

Blaise Pascal

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

Ed Koch

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

George Mason

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Horace Smith

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

Leland Stanford

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas