Ought Quotes

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

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

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

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.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.

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.

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.

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.

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

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

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

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

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

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

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

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

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.

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.