Aldous Huxley Quotes

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

I think every human being has good intentions in one aspect of life and some in every.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

We are come for your good, for all your goods.