I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

You ought to have a perspective when you’re making a film.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That’s what antitrust is all about.

For all its flaws, ‘The Hands of Orlac’ really is a seminal film, and if you’re partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

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

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it...

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

There are a million ‘oughts’ in the world. There’s a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I’m gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me...

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.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, – a mere heart of stone.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.

I’m very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

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

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.