Sentence examples for ought to obey from inspiring English sources
We all have to, whatever the law is, whatever the decision is ultimately made, the rest of us ought to obey it.
A case could be made that when you engage in a voluntary act like going to the movies, you ought to obey the rules.
Socrates and the apostles laid it down that we ought to obey God rather than man, and the gospels enjoin love of God as emphatically as love of our neighbours.
"In Acts 5 29," she wrote to the Barker town board last week, "it states, 'We ought to obey God rather than men.' " And it is clear to her, she said, that the Bible defines marriage as solely the union of a man and a woman.
President Clinton, speaking at a news conference, did not respond with strong language to the mayors' decision to side with the family, saying that "whatever the law is, whatever the decision that is ultimately made, the rest of us ought to obey it".
Further we recognize that any ordinary reasonable person has a conscience and ought to obey it.
If subjects of a given state ought to consent to obey its laws, say because the state performs morally necessary tasks, then their failure to do so is void and no barrier to concluding that they are under a political obligation to that state.
Such failures are void, and so a person who morally ought to have consented to another's authority has a duty to obey her.
Virtue ethicists argue that we ought to ask what virtues, like courage or patience, should be encouraged, rather than focus on rules to obey.
