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

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I am certainly an ought and not a must.
E. M. Forster

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
John Cleese

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.
Denzel Washington

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
E. M. Forster

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.
Peter Singer

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Orson Welles

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
Robert M. Pirsig

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

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
Diogenes

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
Adolf Hitler

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol