Ought Quotes - page 3

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. (Henrik Ibsen)
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. View quote
Francis Bacon
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. View quote
Francis Bacon
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. View quote
H. G. Wells
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. (Ogden Nash)
Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined! View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. View quote
Boris Vian
If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. View quote
Alfred Brendel
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. View quote
René Descartes
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? View quote
Immanuel Kant
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. View quote
John Locke
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. (Henri La Fontaine)
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. View quote
Georgette Heyer
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. View quote
Rosalynn Carter
Liars ought to have good memories. View quote
Algernon Sydney
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. View quote
Harry S. Truman