Quotes on Should

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.