Quotes of: Ought Keyword

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Will Rogers

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Barbara Jordan

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Hale White

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Edgar Quinet

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Eliza Haywood

A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Felix Frankfurter

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.

Cyrus the Great

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Christopher Hitchens

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

Herbert Simon

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

Jim Broadbent

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

Barack Obama

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Blaise Pascal

Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.

Bill Watterson

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Galileo Galilei

Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.

George C. Williams

Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.

Howard Dean

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.

Henri La Fontaine

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau