Ought Quotes

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney

Men, Best, Nothing

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
Algernon Sidney

Words, Eyes, Sense

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
Wilfred Owen

War, Service, Making

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

Women, Men, Freedom

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Avicenna

Health, Sickness, Medicine

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Government, Reason, Themselves

I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
Bob Ney

Great, Respect, Today

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.
Jon Postel

Home, Soon, Higher

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.
Russ Feingold

Nothing, Try, Wrong

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to sex.
Betty Dodson

Food, Sex, Someone

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
Josephus Daniels

Crime, Editor, Dullness

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

Wisdom, Often, Late

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
Nicholas Culpeper

Greatest, Flowers, Herbs

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
Bruce Babbitt

Work, Together, Down

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

Good, Enough, Working

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.
Wes Anderson

Time, Writing, Philosophy

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad

Women, Home, Everything

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.
John Kasich

Give, Public, Company

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.
John Kasich

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
James Payn

Happiness, Future, Mind

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.
Christopher Darden

School, Focus, Someone

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
Christopher Darden

Good, Health, Law

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.
John Cornyn

Talk, American, Economy

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Jane Porter

Truth, Understand, Greatness

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.
Christine Gregoire

Why, General, Clients

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
David McCullough

Music, History, Art

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

Able, Ask, Questions

One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
Paul Begala

Forget, Winning, Lost

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

Last, Century, Religions

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