
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.Peter Singer
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If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.Peter Singer

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.Ernest Rutherford
The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.Charles Darwin
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.David Hume

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe