Ought Quotes - page 4

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
You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
James Madison
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. View quote
John Denham
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. View quote
William Hazlitt
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Felix Frankfurter)
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might. View quote
Cicero
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. View quote
Edmund Burke
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. View quote
Edmund Burke
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. View quote
Edmund Burke
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. View quote
W. H. Auden
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer. View quote
Joseph Addison
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous. (William Cobbett)
Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself. View quote
César Vallejo
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. View quote
Willa Cather
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith