Quotes with ought

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jonathan Swift The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Raymond Chandler The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Plato The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • George Eliot The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bert Lance The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Germaine Greer The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry Ford The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Arthur Rubenstein The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • B. C. Forbes The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Boris Vian 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.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • Charles Kingsley There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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