Quotes with ought

Quotes 201 till 220 of 243.

  • Cass Sunstein We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport or fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Plato We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Plato We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bob Graham We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Charles Kingsley We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Pablo Casals 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
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Barney Frank Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Kenneth Grahame Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
    Kenneth Grahame
    British novelist (1859 - 1932)
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  • Immanuel Kant What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Carly Fiorina What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Casey Affleck What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • O. S. Hawkins What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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  • Harriet Martineau What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Barbara Jordan What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Germaine Greer What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Richard Milhous Nixon When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
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