Quotes About Ought

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.

Identity politics is not politics at all, since it precisely negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms, subsuming 'ought' under 'is.'

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

It is a false compliance with the multitude to raise in them emotions which they wish, when these are not emotions which they ought, to feel." "Whoever

We conduct our lives according to our sense of right and wrong. We somehow possess an awareness of what we "ought" to do. When we fail to do what we "ought," a part of our mind we call "conscience" evokes an unpleasant feeling we call "guilt." Is that feeling—present in almost all individuals—an indication of a God-given moral law? Or does it simply reflect what we have been taught by our parents?

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

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

there are good thoughtful men like our master, that any horse may be proud to serve; and there are bad, cruel men, who never ought to have a horse or dog to call their own.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.

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.

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

Every ought simply has no sense and meaning except in relation to threatened punishment or promised reward … . Thus every ought is necessarily conditioned through punishment or reward, hence, to put it in Kant's terms, essentially and inevitably hypothetical [with if-clause] and never, as he maintains categorical [without if-clause] … Therefore an absolute ought is simply a contradictio in adjecto.

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

We determine what is good, what is bad, what ought to be, and what ought not to be- all out of our inclinations of mind. But we seldom recognize the total relativity- the total meaninglessness – of all our defining. We don't see that it's through our obsession with meaning that we create meaninglessness.

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

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

I think most Americans would agree people should be treated equally and everyone ought to be able to pursue a fulfilling life with the ones they love.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

That we ought to make a great difference between the acts of the understanding and those of the will: that the first were comparatively of little value, and the others, all. That our only business was to love and delight ourselves in GOD.

I can't answer that, replied the werewolf. Like all good dogs, I'm a cynic, and therefore a little blind. I can only see things as they are, not as they ought to be...

For with regard to nature, it is indeed experience which supplies us with the rule and is the source of truth; with regard to moral laws, however, experience is, alas!, but the mother of illusion; and it is altogether reprehensible either to derive or to try to limit the laws of what we ought to do from what is done.

It's a matter of logical structure: what is, just is, and any claim about what ought to be is a claim about our own wishes and desires. Why ever should we imagine that the two would be related?