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

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection. — Samuel Johnson

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that — Patricia Schroeder

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it. — Bernard Bailyn

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. — Neville Cardus

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. — James Madison

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men
this and nothing else is its duty — Friedrich Nietzsche

The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be. — D.H. Lawrence

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. — Emma Goldman

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. — Toni Morrison

A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely. — Ronald Reagan

I am what is called a professor emeritus - from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received. — Seneca The Younger

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged. — A. J. Burnett

Keep moving. Because the human mind is tricky. And we ought not linger in its dark places. — Caroline Kraus

It seems to me that every thing in the light and air ought to be happy, Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has enough. — Robert Goolrick

Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions. — Edward Abbey

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. — Abraham Lincoln

And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion — Harold B. Lee

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness. — Vincent Massey

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. — Samuel Richardson

God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do. — Billy Graham

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part. — Edmund Burke

No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other man in error. — G.K. Chesterton

A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing. — Diana Gabaldon

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation. — Hermann Hesse

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. — Russell Conwell

A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get. — Anthony Trollope

The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'. — Terry Pratchett

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. — Blaise Pascal

The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear
Im a commander guy. — George W. Bush

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon. — Adrian Rogers

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

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. — Frances Wright

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

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions. — Bertrand Russell

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

The country taken as a whole is only fit for the Indian and they had ought ... to possess it, they and their children, forever. — Paul N. Beck

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed. — Gordon B. Hinckley

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration
is not this the way to exalt virtue? — Confucius

We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. — Algernon Sidney

The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. — Timothy Noah

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be. — Richard P. Feynman

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this. — Breyten Breytenbach

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring ... I ought to know. — Bette Davis

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't. — Edna Ferber

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides. — Winston S. Churchill

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. — Edmund Burke

Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God ... — Joseph Smith Jr.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. — Thomas Jefferson

A man ought to look up to a woman, literally or figuratively, because that is the proper mode of worship, and worship is the very least he can do. — Loretta Chase

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. — Christopher Hitchens

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. — George Fordyce

The only object which ought to be enjoyed is the triune God, who is our highest good and our true happiness. — Augustine Of Hippo

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. — Mark Twain

It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption. — Carl Jung

A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better. — Richard Hugo

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord. — George Muller

A [person] ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian . . . and most of all, his family ought to know. - D. L. Moody — Peter Greer

And if any of our dear ones die, it must be because it is the will of God, so we ought have fortitude and bear it submissively. — Anton Chekhov

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. — Homer

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that. — Herman Melville

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. — Howard Zinn

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusion and whoever wants reality ought to be detached. — Simone Weil

And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves. — George William Norris

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. — Charles Wagner

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. — Miguel De Cervantes

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. — Mahatma Gandhi

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree. — Pablo Casals

17Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it. — Stephen Arterburn

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do. — Ernest Holmes

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. If — Steven Pressfield

Prayer can do anything that God can do. The pity is that we do not believe this as we ought, and we do not put it to the test. — E. M. Bounds

The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. — Karl Barth

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. — James McGreevey

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

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5). — Thomas C. Oden

Love is blind and ought to go around with a guide to keep it out of trouble, but if the plan's ever been tried it hasn't worked. — Anthony Gilbert

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. — Novalis

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him. — William Carey

The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

It is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too — Charles Dickens

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye. — Marcus Aurelius

Lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. — Charles Dickens

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. — Pope Gregory I

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich! — Russell Conwell

Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that come on our way. — Assegid Habtewold

There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man. — George W. Bush

Not all men are wounded in the same place; and so you ought to know what part of you is weak, so you can give it the most protection. — Seneca.

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow — Morris Sheppard