Best ought & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?”

Ifs Said Christian Turns Evil Speak Behinds Objects Brother Ought Orthodox Say Anything Slander

Author:Saint Basil

“What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.”

Men Seems Would Be Evil Given Seeing Ought Rounds Beast Necks Hats Worn Preservation Medal Pendants

Author:Pietro Aretino

“Hemans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men who would involve their country in civil wars, and all the evils in its train that they might reign & ride on its whirlwinds & direct the Storm The free people of these United States have spoken, and consigned these wicked demagogues to their proper doom.”

People Men War Country States Might Evil United United States Fate Ought Direct Train Storm Civil War Wicked Ambitious Reign Doom Gallows Ambitious Man

Author:Andrew Jackson

“We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.”

Body Evil Principles Imagine Ought Substance God Love Cherish

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.”

Ends Today Evil Months Ought Tomorrow Accounts Lazy Misfortunes Laziness Delay Inclination My Future Procrastinating Mortification Future Life

Author:Washington Allston

“We are here to say that if you are evil enough to threaten the life of a child, if you are evil enough to interfere with their education, and if you are evil enough to place in danger the future of our communities, you ought to be punished in a very special way.”

Ifs Way Children Enough Evil Community Special Danger Ought Interfere Our Community

Author:Jose Peralta

“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

“Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.”

Use Remember Death Evil Clear Ready Ought Conviction Appearance Inevitable Avoided

Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“Evil is thus a kind of parasite on goodness. If there were no good by which to measure things, evil could not exist. Men sometimes forget this, and say, there is so much evil in the world that there cannot be a God. They are forgetting that, if there were no God, they would have no way of distinguishing evil from goodness. The very concept of evil admits and recognizes a Standard, a Whole, a Rule, an Order. Nobody would say that his automobile was out of order if he did not have a conception of how an automobile ought to run.”

Ifs Men World Way Kind Sometimes Whole Running Order Evil Forget Ought Goodness Standards Concepts Conception Automobile Parasites Sure Thing

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God.”

“We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.”

Way Want Giving Littles Art Helping Evil Lost Conditions Ought Disease Affair Contrary Grants Permit Passages Obstinate Tenacious

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Firsts May Real Death Evil Natural Loss Acting Ought Sorrow Illusion Gains Overcoming Errors Separation Evident Weeping Happier Life

Author:Charles Webster Leadbeater

“The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.”

Men Giving Doe Evil Secret Virtue Ought Seasons Mark Adversity Worthy Good Man Manifest Forsake

Author:Bhartrhari

“I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!”

I Can Evil Wish Sin Grace Ought Slave Acknowledge Satan Mortality Imperfection Imperfect Grace Of God Apostles I Am What I Am

Author:John Newton

“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

People Thinking May Made Pain Young Evil Virtue Example Ought Reconcile Sparta Bodily Pain

Book:The works of John Locke ...

Source: The works of John Locke ...

“If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.”

Ifs Feels Persons Evil Speak Ought Dislike

Book:Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character

Source: Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character

“If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.”

Ifs Giving Children Young Evil Parent Natural Advice Ought Careful Inclination Mischief

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.”

Thinking Men I Can Feelings School Evil Situation Poverty Teacher Ought Sake Pursue Shock Bent

Book:Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen

Source: Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen

“Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.”

Way Should Lasts Purpose Evil Cases Ought Sake Submit Monopoly

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of evil, which can never produce any good.”

Ifs Believe Political Order Evil Moral Forever Rights Produce Ought Equal Unions Seeds Conspiracy Sincerely Equal Rights Masonry Freemasonry

Author:John Quincy Adams

“The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.”

Mean Might Evil Ought Safe Capable Institutions Affected Abandoned Incapable Masonry

Author:John Marshall

“I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.”

Sometimes Action Law Evil Ought Committed Senses Intoxication

Book:Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

Source: Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.”

Source: Agrarian Justice

“Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil.”

World Way Problem Evil Ought Agree Problem Of Evil

Author:Greg Koukl

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