Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don’t privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That’s where the Democrats ought to be.
Selling a movie feels like a hustle to every bone in my body. Many actors have careers dominated by modeling. They’re all over the place. It turns me off. People who are good at what they do ought to practice something bigger.
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done – the right should make the law.
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation’s part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind’s manageable companion.
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.
We buy too much stuff we just don’t need. We’re trying to look cute for next weekend when we ought to be thinking about the next decade.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the British. In some things they may have the advantage, but we will be found to have equally great in others.
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.
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature.
We didn’t think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn’t think the census ought to be weakened.
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, ‘I wonder what we ought to do?’ Things are seldom crystal clear.
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
I’m a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.
One sometimes says: ‘He killed himself because he was bored with life.’ One ought rather to say: ‘He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.’
One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.
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.
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.
My attitude is, a monument, a statue, ought to signify unity instead of division.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it’s not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
I’m a firm believer that if you are not on the team, you ought not have input on who the quarterback is going to be.
Car accidents kill so many of us; we’re not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you’re thinking commitment – and you probably shouldn’t until you’re a senior – you don’t want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn’t turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy – that’s what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
In some ways I’m still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I’ve gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.
There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you’ve had a majority of the states in this country that have strongly stated that marriage ought to be remain the union between one man and one woman.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man’s wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
Pakistan’s being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that’s been extended.
I don’t think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.
Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric ‘selectron,’ quarks ought to have ‘squark’ partners, and so on.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
