Quotes on Should

Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is _x000D_ unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Relations of production are first reproduced by the materiality of the processes of production and circulation. But it should not be forgotten that ideological relations are immediately present in these same processes.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.

Geez, I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.

The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.

We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.