Ought Quotes

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

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.".

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

For a full examination of the truth, you ought to be able to take in the context of a person's past behavior to explain current behavior, ... Among the most egregious crimes are sex offenses against children.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.

[President Clinton was more circumspect.] I think we ought to just wait and see what they do, ... One way or the other, it will be a historic decision that we will live with forever.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

It's a little odd to make it a requirement. On the other hand, colleges and schools ought to be discussing it. It's a good cause and good document.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.