Ought Quotes

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn’t it only the naive who find all of this baffling?

He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.