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“Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.”

People Ifs Said Self Home Dream President Millions Ought Immigration Romney Veto Dream Act

Author:David Plouffe

“Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.”

Knows Humans Self Growth Human Beings Ought Bigger Personal Growth Dare Best Self

Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.”

Men Self Social Environment Ought Ideals Environmental Teamwork Simple Living Interdependence Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Being Sad Social Being

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.”

Humans Heart Self Games Walks Human Nature Ought Foolish Setting Settings Settling Disappointed Throwing Expecting Tides Self Control Enthusiastic

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.”

Self Hours Ought Notes Desert Multiple Programmers Note To Self Pasties Mojave

Author:John Carmack

“Above all else, philosophy ought to aim for clarification - of the self, one's place in the world, and the ways we make meaning. Philosophy, when practiced well, can be useful. It can enable us to grapple in productive ways with questions about the meaning of life and who I am and how I want to be in the world.”

World Way Want Wells Self Philosophy Ought Aim Who I Am Meaning Of Life Productive Places In The World Clarification

Author:Peg O'Connor

“Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!”

Source: The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we ought to do. Other people's assertions cannot silence the howling dirge within us. It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.”

People Knows Self Silence Doubt Talent Ought Poison Assertion Self-doubt

Author:Eric Hoffer

“We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.”

Knows Should Mean Important Different Self Past Nations Identity Ought Culinary Dishes Historic Self Confident

Author:Tom Jaine

“One's worth and self-regard ought to come from individual competitive performance, not from group identity. Pride based on clan or tribal connections is atavistic. It appeals to people who fear they cannot succeed as individuals, and by diverting their energies it all but ensures they will not succeed as individuals.”

People Self Individual Energy Groups Identity Pride Ought Succeed Connections Performances Regard Appeals Clans Group Identity

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.”

Feels Writing Self Subjects Ought Theme Egotism Embarrassment Hints Awkwardness

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.”

Thinking Men Self Done Happens Beautiful Causes Objects Ought Self Love Lovers Honor Judgment Committed Arise Great Men Preference Blinded Blunders

Author:Plato

“Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.”

Men Doe Self Passion Acting Ought Lovers Benefits Fellows Aids Neighbor Good Man Accord Bad Man

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.”

People Believe Self Easy Ought Granted Complacency

Book:The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings

Source: The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings

“It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.”

“If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'”

Ifs Firsts May Self Known Ought Calling Truth Is Excuse Focused Flaws Misfits Sad Truth

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“[Travel seems] not just a way of having a good time, but something that every self-respecting citizen ought to undertake, like a high-fiber diet, say, or a deodorant.”

Way Self Seems Ought Citizens Diets Good Times Having A Good Time Fiber Deodorant

Author:Jan Morris

“Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.”

People Thinking Men World Way Humans Littles Has Beens Made Self Care Human Beings Sin Simple Moral Nice Crime Ought Morality Mass Conscience Saved Code Dislike Moral Code Thermometers

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.”

Self Individual Leadership Leader Moral Ought Morality Demand Respect Ethics Code Self Respect Conformity Ethics And Morals Code Of Ethics

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”

Knows May Self Wisdom Doubt Fool Ought Prove Obstacles Heroic Heroism Truest Greatest Obstacles

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.”

Self Reason Pride Ought Satisfaction One Time Considering Self-satisfaction Inconstancy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.”

Self Done Issues Clear Ought Abuse Meetings Environmental Guilty Realization Occasions Protest Righteousness Stewardship Self Righteousness Accusers Smog Convocation

Author:Wendell Berry

“We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.”

Thinking Persons Self Reality Easy Sin Attitude Judging Ought Behavior Weakness Critical Focused Righteous Shortcomings Blinded Self Righteous Easy To Judge

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I'm not saying that people shouldn't go out to football games and drink beer and have a good time, I do it myself. But, at the same time, people are so apathetic and that shows me that they don't care about themselves. They have no self-image. Their image is projected to them via the television and that is where they make decisions about who they are according to what the public says they ought to be.”

People Self Shows Care Games Decision Television Football Ought Drink Don't Care Beer Good Times Show Me Having A Good Time Football Game Apathetic

Author:Alex Jones

“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.”

Thinking Men Self Might Humility Ought Puzzles

Author:Prince Charles

“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Real schools ought to provide people with techniques of self-defense, but that would mean teaching the truth about the world and about the society, and schools couldn't survive very long if they did that.”

People Ifs World Mean Long Real Self School Teaching Ought Defense Technique Self Defense

Book:Chronicles of dissent

Source: Chronicles of dissent

“We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.”

Knows Way Believe Self Today Natural Opinion Air Ought Philosophical Contrary Foolish Satisfied Tone Decline Superiority Adopting Natural Science

Author:David Hilbert

“If... deceit is fundamental to animal communication, then there must be strong selection to spot deception and this ought, in turn, to select for a degree of self-deception, rendering some facts and motives unconscious so as not to betray - by the subtle signs of self-knowledge - the deception being practiced.' Thus, 'the conventional view that natural selection favors nervous systems which produce ever more accurate images of the world must be a very naive view of mental evolution.”

“All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.”

Thinking Men Self Law Rights Ought Please Creatures Privilege Dues Noble Preservation Laws Of Nature Possessing Qualifications Self Preservation Unalienable Rights Rights And Privileges

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.”

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.”

Men Trying Self Hate Risk Ought Self Love Becoming Victim Revenge Lure

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean, we are the ones that ought to be organizing them, not Rush Limbaugh. There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi Germany.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Quite apart from the Church's financial self-interest in getting me out of the way, Baltimore is an overwhelmingly Catholic city and like most good Christians, they felt we ought to be punished for our unorthodox views.”

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Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for a good life on our own, because we need other people.”

People Needs Trying Humans Self Human Beings Ought Vulnerable Sufficient Good Life Self Sufficient

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.”

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.”

Men Mind Humans Self Pride Ought Self Love Lows Men And Women Human Mind

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”

Source: The Brothers K