::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

After his arrest, Popitz told the Gestapo ::“ As somebody who was very familiar with conditions in the System period the Weimar Republic, my view of the Jewish question was that the Jews ought to disappear from the life of the state and the economy.

::“ I agree with you that the right way of testing actions by their consequences, is to test them by the natural consequences of the particular action, and not by those which would follow if everyone did the same.

::“ With the passage of the Roadless Rule, inventoried roadless areas, ‘ for better or worse, more committed to pristine wilderness, and less amendable to road development for purposes permitted by the Forest Service .’”

::“ If we consider ‘ The will ’ by Kamel Selim in 1939 the beginning of Egyptian realism in cinema, so we have to admit that ‘ House-Boat No. 70 ’ by Khairy Beshara, 1982, is the start of the new realism ”

::“ In the traditional view, it is assumed that there exists a reality in space-time and that this reality is a given thing, all of whose aspects can be viewed or articulated at any given moment.

::“ happiness, private happiness, is the proper or ultimate end of all our actions … each particular action may be said to have its proper and peculiar end …( but )….

::“ Now it is evident from the nature of God, viz.

::“ It is true there are cases in which, if we confine ourselves to the effects of the first order, the good will have an incontestable preponderance over the evil.

::“ It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others.

::“ The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it.

::“ there is, from the ethical point of view, no symmetry between suffering and happiness, or between pain and pleasure … In my opinion human suffering makes a direct moral appeal, namely, the appeal for help, while there is no similar call to increase the happiness of a man who is doing well anyway.

::“ Surely the utilitarian must admit that whatever the facts of the matter may be, it is logically possible that an ‘ unjust ’ system of punishment — e. g. a system involving collective punishments, retroactive laws and punishments, or punishments of parents and relations of the offender — may be more useful than a ‘ just ’ system of punishment ?”

::“ We certainly cannot hope directly to compare their effects except within a limited future ; and all the arguments, which have ever been used in Ethics, and upon which we commonly act in common life, directed to shewing that one course is superior to another, are ( apart from theological dogmas ) confined to pointing out such probable immediate advantages …

::“ It is the beginningless round of rebirths that is called the ’ Wheel of the round of rebirths ’ ( saṃsāracakka ).

::“ They ’ re supposed to say, ‘ I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right — can you interview this person ?’ They ’ re not doing that ,” she said.

::“ It is much better to kill only such you want, without wasting your powder and lead, then to be firing into God ’ s creatures in such a wicked manner .” ( Natty to Judge Marmeduke ) – Chapter III, The Slaughter of Pigeons

::“ Arguments for and against God's just judgment resemble those found in Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta ” the delays of divine vengeance “ as well as in the targumic midrash about Cain and Abel in Gen ” “ 4.

::“ involves our saying, for instance, that a world in which absolutely nothing except pleasure existed — no knowledge, no love, no enjoyment of beauty, no moral qualities — must yet be intrinsically better — better worth creating — provided only the total quantity of pleasure in it were the least bit greater, than one in which all these things existed as well as pleasure .”

::“ Utilitarian ethics makes all of us members of the same moral community.

::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

::“ We are not able, at the moment, to send out envoys and Imperial troops so, in spite of their good wishes, each kingdom seek help, as they please, wherever they can, to the east, west, south, or north .”

::“ Suppose that a ruler controls a weapon capable of instantly and painlessly destroying the human race.

One way to visualize this identification with the real numbers as usually viewed is that the equivalence class consisting of those Cauchy sequences of rational numbers that " ought " to have a given real limit is identified with that real number.

One would imagine, though, that if this story were true, some kind of record ought to exist of the event, and presumably Danish historians would not have failed to mention it in some way.

One ought always to be a soldier ,' wrote Michael-Goebbels.

One of the crucial concerns of workers and those that believe that labour rights are important, is that in a globalizing economy, common social standards ought to support economic development in common markets.

One branch of the central nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system, becomes primarily active during a stress response, regulating many of the body ’ s physiological functions in ways that ought to make an organism more adaptive to its environment.

One or two conversations with Reggie convinced me that I ought at least to see for myself.

One ought to at least have good hope for the eternal salvation of all those who in no way dwell in the true Church of Christ.

One moral realist response to moral error theory holds that it " proves too much " — if moral claims are false because they entail that we have reasons to do certain things regardless of our preferences, then so too are " hypothetical imperatives " ( e. g. " if you want to get your hair-cut you ought to go to the barber ").

That self-evident truth which the moral cognitivist claims to exist upon which all other prescriptive truths are ultimately based is: One ought to desire what is really good for one and nothing else.

One wag said it ought to be an interesting trip after all that has been said.

One well-known legal formula, a model instruction to the judge in a civil lawsuit, began as follows: Si paret Numerium Negidium Aulo Agerio sestertium decem milia dare oportere, meaning " If it appears that Numerius Negidius ought to pay Aulus Agerius ten thousand sesterces ".

He also notes that the characteristics are not an all-or-nothing proposition, but rather each of the characteristics may be manifest in some degree, and that modularity itself is also not a dichotomous construct — something may be more or less modular: " One would thus expect — what anyhow seems to be desirable — that the notion of modularity ought to admit of degrees " ( Fodor, 1996 / 1983: 37 ).

One of the most famous references to the early mills was in the poem / hymn " Jerusalem " by William Blake, in which " those dark satanic mills " were used to symbolise the injustice that a new Jerusalem ought to replace.

Kent in " Data and Reality ": " One thing we ought to have clear in our minds at the outset of a modelling endeavour is whether we are intent on describing a portion of " reality " ( some human enterprise ) or a data processing activity.

In the sequel, Kuralt said " One sociologist suggested we ought to call it Forty in Webster Groves.

One has it that George showed Zappa his song " Willin '," and that Zappa fired him from the Mothers of Invention, because he felt that George was too talented to merely be a member of his band, and told him he ought to go away and form his own band.

" One cannot doubt that, as an ordinary rule of law, an acceptance of an offer made ought to be notified to the person who makes the offer, in order that the two minds may come together.

In this statement the assembled prelates, while declaring their confession in " One God, the Father Almighty, and in His only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, generated from Him before the ages ," recommended the disuse of the terms ousia ( essence or substance ), homoousion ( identical in essence, or substance ), and homoiousion ( similar in essence, or substance ), " by which the minds of many are perturbed "; and they held that there " ought to be no mention of any of them at all, nor any exposition of them in the Church, and for this reason and for this consideration that there is nothing written about them in divine Scripture and that they are above men's knowledge and above men's understanding " ( Athan., De Syn., xxviii ; Soz., ii, xxx ; Hil., De Syn., xi ).

" One such comment was that the New York Times " really ought to change its name to Holocaust Update.

In the book " One Up on Wall Street ," published in 1989, Peter Lynch had written that " there ought to be a monument to Bruce Bent.

* One and thyrtye epigrammes, wherein are bryefly touched so many abuses, that maye and ought to be put away ( 1550 )

One ought not to seek it anywhere: not in love, nor beauty, nor happiness, nor virtue ; but one should love it, in order to be virtuous, beautiful and happy, insofar as that is possible for man.

One interpretation of this implies that men and women ought to be informed of and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and acceptable methods of birth control ; also access to appropriate health care services of sexual and reproductive medicine that will enable women to go safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best chance of having a healthy infant.