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“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.”

Evil Wealth Growing Failing Source Ought Capacity Abuse Property Corporations Accumulation Guarded

Author:James Madison

“You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.”

Men Giving Wells Politics Failing Ought Office Refuse Offense Weary

Author:St. Catherine of Siena

“It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.”

World Mind Littles Problem Failing Mines Theory Ought Silly Apology Delightful Apologising

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows War Failing Ought Deserve Blame Administration If I Could Blame Me

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.”

Ifs Mean Littles Christian Order Christ Church Successful Grace Failing Ought Prove Chiefs Being Successful Christian Family Family Education

Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I

Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I

“We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.”

World Values Fall Parent Failing Ought Falling Apart Shifting

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.”

Knows Sin Numbers Responsibility Cases Greater Failing Ignorance Ought Conscience Excuse Stupidity Likes Obligation Deliberation Incomprehension

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.”

Ifs Want Feels Stills Motivation Effort Compassion Moral Failing Duty Ought Intention

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer