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Ought Quotes (page 5)

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. Niccolo Machiavelli
Matthew Macfadyen quote: "I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time...."
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. Matthew Macfadyen
John Lukacs quote: "Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner..."
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. John Lukacs
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function. Herbert Simon
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations. Christian Lous Lange
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. Vera Brittain
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. Martin Luther King jr.
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes. John Kasich
Bill Janklow quote: "So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to..."
So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home. Bill Janklow
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. Reinhold Niebuhr
Thomas Nashe quote: "Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits..."
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. Thomas Nashe
There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with. Lawrence Eagleburger
There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that. Lawrence Eagleburger
David Hume quote: "To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile..."
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. David Hume
What is death? A "tragic mask." Turn it and examine it. See, it does not bite. The poor body must be separated from the spirit either now or later, as it was separated from it before. Why, then, are you troubled, if it be separated now? for if it is not separated now, it will be separated afterward. Why? That the period of the universe may be completed, for it has need of the present, and of the future, and of the past. What is pain? A mask. Turn it and examine it. The poor flesh is moved... Epictetus

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