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Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
It ought to be self-evident common sense that service is important to sales. But it's not.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.
It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
As a fan, there are times you get frustrated as to what you think a team ought to be doing.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.
Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.
I'm not bothered by the food Nazis. Customers ought to be able to pick what they want to eat.
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.
If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.
All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously.
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.