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Wise Quotes About Morality (100 Quotes)

The modern world is a very strange thing. On the one hand, everyone talks about the need to observe certain moral standards, and on the other hand, it is their violations that often lead an ordinary person to real success. Therefore, it is difficult to say that morality is highly valued today, but still, basic principles must be observed. This page contains wise quotes about morality.

Moral qualities are found in connection with intention.

Two things always fill the soul with new and ever stronger surprise and awe, the more often and longer we reflect on them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

If a person is trying to use you for his own purposes, remove him from your list of friends.

The Scythians benefit more from ignorance of vices than the Greeks from knowledge of virtue.

Morality is just a pose we adopt in front of those we don't like.

If people are good only because they fear punishment and desire reward, then we are truly pathetic creatures.

Nature has given man a weapon - intellectual moral strength, but he can use this weapon in the opposite direction, therefore a person without moral principles turns out to be the most wicked and savage creature, base in his sexual and taste instincts.

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

A beautiful and virtuous woman is a mirage that replenishes our great moral desert with bright lakes and shady alleys.

By the name of morality we mean not only external decency, but also the entire internal basis of motives. The antidote to ignorance is education, with which the souls of young people should be nourished in schools.

Morality is the basis of all human values.

He who moves forward in knowledge, but lags behind in morality, goes backward rather than forward.

Moral power, like thought, is limitless.

An ascetic makes a need out of virtue.

The life of people devoted only to pleasure without reason and without morality has no value.

The starting point of moral perfection is, first of all, material need.

One must be mentally clear, morally pure and physically tidy.

You love your virtue as a mother loves her child; but when was it ever heard of a mother wanting payment for her love?

There is no other morality except that which is based on the principles of reason and follows from man's natural inclination to goodness.

Sinlessness in its pure form is a husk, empty of life's meaning, because morality that has not known sin is just simple failure.

Morality is inherent in character.

Morality, inclinations and knowledge depend only on upbringing.

Moral strength is finding in life what really matters to you, what means more to you than anything else in the world. And when you find it, you fight for it. And you risk everything. You are ready to give up your future, your life, everything for her. And maybe what you do is not always beautiful, it doesn’t matter, because deep down you know that the game is worth the candle. This is what moral strength is.

If someone insulted me, that’s his business, that’s his inclination, that’s his character; I have my own character, the one that was given to me by nature, and I will remain true to my nature in my actions.

What is morality? What should morality consist of? In firm, deep conviction, in fiery, unshakable faith in the dignity of man, in his high purpose. This conviction, this faith is the source of all human virtues, all actions.

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

To be truly kind, a person must have a vivid imagination, he must be able to imagine himself in the place of another. Imagination is the best tool for moral improvement.

Morality is not an empty phrase in business. It makes all the sense.

Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of immorality.

To be highly moral means to be a free soul. Someone who is constantly angry with someone, constantly afraid of something, and completely given over to passions cannot be free in soul. He who cannot concentrate within himself or is carried away by something, when seeing he will not see, when he hears he will not hear, and when he tastes he will not discern the taste.

What is good in politics cannot be bad in morality.

Morality has always been the last refuge of people indifferent to art.

And whoever among people does not want to die of thirst must learn to drink from all glasses; and whoever wants to remain clean among people must be able to wash with dirty water.

A moral person aligns his profession with his beliefs, and not the other way around. Not since the Middle Ages such people are found less and less often.

The most highly moral are usually those who are furthest from solving problems.

People cannot understand someone else's virtue, which is not in them. Instead of believing that you are stronger, it is much easier for them to imagine that you are weaker.

Moral rules are like signs that point the way in the field of life and show pitfalls.

Morality is the mind of the heart.

The victory of the moral ideal is achieved using the same “immoral” means as any victory: violence, lies, slander, injustice.

Apparently, the biggest difficulty in my relationship with modern civilization is the growing gap between the moral and the legal.

Morality is preceded by compulsion, later it becomes custom, even later - free obedience, and, finally, almost instinct.

Moral indignation is envy with a halo around its head.

There are people who treat morality like some architects treat houses: they put convenience in the foreground.

Morality is not a list of actions or a collection of rules that can be used like apothecary or culinary recipes.

We are uncontrollable in our desires, there are moments when we are ready to devour each other. But the “sense of community” prevails over us: note this, this is almost the definition of morality.

Truly, a believer, through his upbringing and manifestation of morality, reaches the level of fasting and praying.

It is easy to preach morality, but it is difficult to justify it.

To educate a person intellectually without educating him morally means to raise a threat to society.

Morals deteriorate more easily than they are corrected.

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

Unbridled sensuality leads to the belief that the world is meaningless. Chastity, on the contrary, returns meaning to the world.

For the sake of morality, one must sacrifice material things for some time.

At every step there are signs: “Don’t spit!”, “Don’t litter!”, “Don’t make noise,” “Don’t drive on the left side!” The only thing I didn’t see was the inscription: “Do not kill!” Maybe it would work?

The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts.

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

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

You don’t have to be too moral, otherwise you risk indulging in self-deception. Your goal must be higher than morality. You have to be not just good, but good for the sake of something.

The highest goal of human aspiration is high moral character.

A person who wants to remain virtuous in all circumstances can only perish among the multitude of those who are not virtuous.

Morality falls once, but indefinitely.

In social matters, the decision is considered good, which is accompanied by the least possible evil.

The morality of nations depends on respect for women.

If your moral principles make you sad, know that your moral principles are no good.

Moral virtue is reflected in pleasures and suffering: for if we act badly for the sake of pleasure, then we shy away from beautiful actions because of suffering.

What, if not immorality, is the moral superiority of poets, not to mention cynics?

Virtue is manifested in actions and does not need either an abundance of words or an abundance of knowledge.

There is no bliss for a person in immorality; only in morality and virtue does he achieve the highest bliss.

Virtue is its own reward.

The influence of luxury on morals is the most harmful.

The unity of inner and outer beauty -

- Lev Nikolaevich, please advise. I have a wife, I love her. And my mistress, I love her too. - A mistress is not good. Having a mistress is immoral. - Listen, you ruined all the women in your village. - Listen, you ruined all the women in your village.

The moral qualities of a person should be judged not by his individual efforts, but by his daily life.

To say that moral ideals are innate or are the result of instinct is the same as saying that a person is able to read without even knowing the letters of the alphabet.

To be a patriot, you need to hate all nations except your own; to be a religious person, you need to hate all sects except your own; to be a moral person, you need to hate all falsehoods except your own.

When people boast about vices, it is not a problem; moral evil arises when they boast of virtues.

It’s not enough to be kind, you need to be sympathetic.

Absolute morality: everything is prohibited.

The laws of the outside world are no more moral than those dictated by a criminal lifestyle.

Morality is the science of the relations existing between people and the duties arising from these relations.

Moral people are the most vindictive people.

Education should be based on two foundations - morality and prudence: the first supports virtue, the second protects from other people's vices.

Thousands of sympathetic words cannot replace one good deed.

Morality grows stronger when the flesh becomes decrepit.

You don't have to be a religious person to believe in morality.

He who does something shameful must first of all be ashamed of himself.

People of the highest morality do not consider themselves moral, therefore they have the highest morality.

Everything that is beautiful is moral.

Every person cannot be a teacher. But you have no right not to be a teacher. After all, we are talking about the importance of moral education.

Aristotle was reproached for giving alms to a man of bad character; he replied: “I serve not to the taste, but to the person.”

Morality exhibited in the absence of police control is somehow more moral.

Only that which coincides with your sense of beauty and with the ideal in which you embody it is moral.

With the help of moral sense, a person distinguishes good from bad, and then decides what to do. What are the results of the choice? Nine times out of ten he chooses to do the wrong thing.

One should not think that only impeccably clean and highly moral things contribute to improvement. Everything great shapes a person.

Without moral guidelines, it’s easy to get lost in your search for yourself.

Most reasoning is not capable of turning to moral perfection, because most people by nature tend to submit not to a sense of shame, but to fear, and to abstain from bad things not because it is shameful, but for fear of revenge.

I love music very much, I think, because there is so little morality in it.

The mind can tell you what to avoid, but only the heart tells you what to do.

Morality teaches not how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.

A well-mannered person knows how to speak with inferior people without arrogance, and with superiors - with respect and ease.

On weekdays we do not use our morality very well. By Sunday it always requires repairs.

Aphorisms and quotes about morality

Two things always fill the soul with new and ever stronger surprise and awe, the more often and longer we reflect on them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law within 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 teaches not how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant