To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

- Edmund Burke

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

- Helen Mirren

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

- Harold Pinter

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

- H. G. Wells

They want the Olympics. We ought to make sure they don't get the Olympics.

- George Nethercutt

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

- George William Norris

We ought to disarm Germany completely.

- George William Norris

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

- Frances Wright

Government ought to make it easy for people to do the right thing.

- Elizabeth Esty

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

- Ellen Page

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

- Aristotle

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

- E. M. Forster

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

- Diogenes

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

- Daniel Kahneman

I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.

- Christopher Buckley

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

- Chief Joseph

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

- Barney Frank

Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.

- Arthur Herzog

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

- Anthony Trollope

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

- Alfred de Vigny