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“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.”

“Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.”

Thinking Giving Reality Television Products Ought Convinced Magazines Ads Consumerism Overconsumption Television Commercials

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.”

Thinking Giving Girl Boys Successful Position Ought Bases Paid Devotion Impress Miscellaneous Unselfish Boy And Girl Successful Marriage

Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.”

Men Way Giving Ability Ought

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, to look at the picture ought to rest the brain or rather the imagination.”

Giving Looks Ideas Imagination Sleep Brain Style Ought Colour New Ideas Bedroom Simplification

Book:The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

“Let us look at our own faults, and not other people's. We ought not to insist on everyone following in our footsteps, nor to take upon ourselves to give instructions in spirituality when, perhaps, we do not even know what it is.”

People Knows Giving Looks Reality Spirituality Ought Faults Following Instruction Realism Footsteps

Author:Teresa of Avila

“The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.”

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second

“I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.”

Thinking Giving Purpose Ready Ought Skills Fairs Scientist Philosopher Extremes Technique Cynical Methodology Investigating Biceps

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders.”