Ought Quotes - Page 6

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.

People are people. We'll always find a way to mess up, doesn't matter who's in charge.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.