Sayings of famous people about morality. Quotes about morality

Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant

Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine

Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy

Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Ethics is the philosophy of good will, and not just good action.
Immanuel Kant

Ethics can be either active, creative or passive, repentant, ethics of intolerance towards oneself and others, which can only delve into so-called sins; and sometimes shameful to be right.
Karol Izhikovsky

A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Solovyov

No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer

Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey

True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer

Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel

Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Hwalibug

Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt

Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky

Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid

The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin

An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious man - all sects except one's own; to be a moral person - all falsehood except his own.
Lionel Strachey

Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde

Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken

True morality neglects morality.
B. Pascal

Morality grows stronger when the flesh grows decrepit.
Molière

Higher morality requires some freedom for immorality as well.
V. Solovyov

Sinlessness in its purest form is a husk,
I am single from the meaning of life,
After all, morality, which did not know sin, -
Just simple bad luck.
I. Huberman

People of higher morality do not consider themselves moral, therefore they have higher morality.
Lao Tzu

All publications and even books about morality, about how to behave in society, do not bring any benefit. Those who read them, that is, those who are educated, do not need them, moral freaks do not read them.
V. Zubkov

A sense of morality helps us understand the essence of morality and how to evade it.
Mark Twain

Moral people are the most vengeful people.
L. Shestov

With the help of a moral sense, a person distinguishes good from bad, and then decides how to act. What are the results of the choice? Nine times out of ten he chooses to do bad things.
Mark Twain

Own moral uncleanliness is a sign of contempt for oneself.
Apuleius

Only with strong, ideal aspirations can people fall morally low.
L. Tolstoy

For chaste people
Through mysterious currents
Sour in vain love juice
Goes to kefir moralizing.
I. Huberman

The only woman who was certain to be faithful to her husband was Eva. ()

Moral bankruptcy
Moral bankruptcy is declared by the click of a cocked pistol or the rustle of a rope being tightened.
Moral bankruptcy is declared by the click sound of the triggering cocked gun, or by the rustle of the noose ()

We know how to plant, mow under the root - too. Learn to save at least something ()

Americans cry when they see their flag raised. And we cry only when we have nothing to rise. ()

Having loved your neighbor, do not trample on the bottom!
()

If morality has standards instead of principles, then it becomes a commodity. (Valery Krasovsky)

MORAL - "The moral rules by which the conscience lives"

(Ivan Golyuk)

Moral principles do not allow living by the laws. (Valery Krasovsky)

Moral of most folk tales: a fool is smarter than everyone. ()

Moral facts are phenomena like any other. (Emile Durkheim)

I am not yet such a scoundrel to think about morality. A million years have passed until my soul was released to walk into the wide world, and suddenly I would say to her: you, darling, do not forget and walk "in morality." No, I'll tell her: walk, darling, walk, sweetheart, walk, kind, walk, as you yourself know. And in the evening you will go to God. For my life is my day, and it is precisely my day, and not Socrates' or Spinoza's. (Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov)

In science, lessons must be repeated in order to remember them well; in morality, one must remember mistakes well so as not to repeat them. (Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky)

Morality is "impotence in action". Whenever she enters into a struggle with some vice, she is defeated. (Karl Marx)

I will try to revive morality with wit, and temper wit with morality. (Joseph Addison)

Good and evil are two sides of the coin
And whose more important, depends on morality. (zebra)

MORAL - for the majority, this is a system for ensuring their own rightness. (Robert Musil)

I know and admit that current morality, like bourgeois law, in its general, main features, reflects those legal concepts that were the fruit of experience transmitted from generation to generation, gradually increased and modified, regarding the necessary conditions of human community.

The basis of life is the basis for morality. Where, from hunger, from poverty, you do not have any material in your body, there is no basis and material for morality in your head, in your heart and in your feelings. (Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach)

The question of the reality of morality boils down to whether there is really a justified principle opposed to the principle of selfishness? Since selfishness requires well-being only for the individual, the opposite principle would have to extend this requirement to all. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

The practical need for morality arises from the conflict of desires of different people or the conflict of desires in one person. (Bertrand Russell)

Morality should not be the goal, but the consequence of a work of art. (Benjamin Constant)

Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes. (John Dewey)

Morality is a household item, not a deity. It must be used; no need to idolize her. (Hjalmar Erik Fredrik Sederberg)

The strictest morality allows us to feel pleasure at the thought of a generous act. (David Hume)

Morality is somewhat akin to poetry: the moral life is a poem embodied in reality. The lofty deeds that once inspired epics are epics themselves, and no poem is worth them. (Jean Marie Guyot)

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I always keep my word when dealing with people, and not always when dealing with God. God is able to forgive.
Modified Paul van Doren.

But I say to you: do not resist evil. But whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Gospel of Matthew 5:39.

Hell is a place where the ten commandments are prosecuted.
Henry Louis Mencken.

An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche.

Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken.

Let's learn - maybe after death we will grow the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

In the struggle for a just cause, sometimes the cause loses, and sometimes the right.
Leshek Kumor.

In our time, the place of the ten commandments was taken by the rules of the road - and they are violated just as often.
Ilona Bodden.

What is virtue? In chastity? No, I will answer, because the human race would have died out. In marital cohabitation? No, there is more virtue in temperance. In not killing? No, because every order would be broken and the evildoers would kill the righteous. In killing? No, killing destroys a living thing. Our truth and our good are only partly true and good, and they are stained with evil and falsehood.
Blaise Pascal.

Wolf to wolf man.
Yanina Ipohorskaya.

Raven: A man will not peck out a man's eyes. But it will beat.
Yanina Ipohorskaya.

You must make good out of evil, because there is nothing else to make of it.
Robert Penn Warren.



The boundary between light and shadow is you.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel.

Give fists to good, so evil will immediately declare itself good.
Vladimir Goloborodko.

Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant.

The Ten Commandments are given in order to choose a few of them and follow them.

The Ten Commandments are so concise, clear and understandable only because they were written without the help of advisers and experts.
Charles de Gaulle.

Dobro must be with his fists - if he does not have more modern weapons.
Valery Seregin.

Good must be with fists.
Stanislav Kunyaev.

Good by decree is not good.
Ivan Turgenev.

Good exists where it is constantly created.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.

The good that I want, I do not do, but the evil that I do not want, I do.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 7, 19.

Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid.



Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky.

Having reached the goal, you notice that you are a means.
Gennady Malkin.

If God were a liberal, instead of ten commandments, we would have ten sentences.
Malcolm Bradbury.

If there were so little good in the world, as they say, evil would not be so striking in the eye.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.

If everyone followed the ten commandments, there would simply be nothing to talk about.

If you do not feel like breaking even one of the ten commandments, then something is wrong with you.
Gilbert Chesterton.

If A said, don't be B.
O. Donskoy.

Evil never sleeps, and besides, it often wakes up.
Vladislav Gzheshchik.

Evil, as a rule, avenges itself, but good is not necessarily rewarded. Evil is much more consistent.
Karol Izhikovsky.

And should we not do evil so that good will come out, as some slander us and say that this is how we teach.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 3, 8.

True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer.

When they learned in the Celestial Empire that beauty is beauty, ugliness also appeared. When they learned that good is good, evil also appeared.
Lao Tzu.



The amount of good in nature equals the amount of evil.
Jean Baptiste Robinet.

To whom the end is permitted, the means are also permitted.
German Buzenbaum, Jesuit.

Who does not notice evil is stupid, who does not notice good is unhappy.
Jerzy Pludowski.

The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin.

People are always bad until they are compelled to do good by necessity.
Niccolo Machiavelli.

Moses: Inventor of the ten most frequently violated laws.
Leonard Louis Levinson.

Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey.

At every step there are inscriptions: Don't give a damn! Do not litter! Keep quiet. Don't drive on the left side? I did not see only the inscription: Do not kill? Or maybe it would work.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Apostle Paul - Epistle to the Romans, 12, 21.

Do not forget that "Father begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson.

Did not keep the thought - keep the word.
Slavomir Trotsky.

There is no such end that would not be justified by solid means.
Viktor Kornilov.



Never ascribe to human malignity that which can be explained by stupidity.
"Hanlon's Razor."

No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer.

Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine.

Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde.

The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt.

Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant.

We always think of a moral position as vertical, and an immoral position as horizontal.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Promise only the impossible, and you will have nothing to reproach yourself with.
Jacques Deval.

Promised but delivered.
E. Eligulashvili.

The reverse side of good is bad; it is remarkable that the other side of the evil is the same.
Grigory Landau.

He walked over the corpses of those going to the goal.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Half of the promises we complain about not being fulfilled were never given to us by anyone.
Edgar Howe.



Half the consequences of good intentions are evil. Half the consequences of bad intentions are good.
Mark Twain.

Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant.

Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.
Arthur Schopenhauer.

Ever since the Ten Commandments appeared in print, everyone knows what their options are.
Wladyslaw Katarzynski.

The surest sign of a broken promise is the ease with which it is given.
Axel Oxenstierna.

Do it if you can't promise.
Mikhail Genin.

Only ten commandments, and what a repertoire of sins!
Julius Wontroba.

At least once to start with the means to justify the ends!
Karol Izhikovsky.

Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Khwalibug.

A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Solovyov.

A person uses a method or a method uses a person.
Slavomir Mrozhek.

Man with man has been conducting the same monologue for centuries.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec.

Man with man. And there is no man!
Mechislav Shargan.

Man is God to man if he knows his duties.
Caecilius Statius.

Man is a wolf to man.
Plaut.

It may be that conscience is the source of morality, but morality has never been the source of what conscience considers good.

The strong trample on morality. Weak morality caresses. The one whom morality pursues always stands between the strong and the weak.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The terrible thing is not that great people are immoral, but that immorality leads to greatness.

Sebastian Brant

Yes, neither in wealth nor in power
There is no happiness without morality.

Pierre Buast

There are two moralities: one is passive, which forbids doing evil, the other is active, which commands to do good.

Georg Hegel

First of all, it is necessary to achieve behavior in accordance with the law, and, moreover, with a moral mindset, and only then can moral behavior as such, in which there is no legal prescription, come.

Claude Helvetius

People need a human morality based on human nature, on experience, on reason.

A person who is not familiar with the art of riding will not undertake to give advice on how to ride horses. But in morality we are less modest. Here we always consider ourselves knowledgeable and able to give advice to all people.

Immanuel Kant

Morality is not a teaching about how we should make ourselves happy, but about how we should become worthy of happiness.

Karl Marx

Morality is based on the autonomy of the human spirit.

Mark Twain

In matters of morality, man constantly draws an extremely strange distinction between man and his creator. He demands from his fellow men the observance of a very worthy moral code, but his god's total lack of morality causes him neither shame nor disapproval.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the good ones moralize, they arouse disgust; when the evil ones moralize, they cause fear.

Morality is the importance of man in front of nature.

Mikhail Prishvin

Moralization is the work of mediocre people.

Oscar Wilde

A man who reads morality is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who reads morality is certainly an ugly woman.

Albert Einstein

The moral qualities of a remarkable man are of greater importance for his generation and for the historical process than purely intellectual achievements. These latter themselves depend on the greatness of the spirit, a greatness that usually remains unknown.

David Hume

The strictest morality allows us to feel pleasure at the thought of a generous act.