Aldous Huxley Quotes

Every religion there's something foul going on.

A man is not good or bad for one action.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Clergymen are the ticket scalpers outside the gates of heaven. Religion has been a curse to mankind.

Indulgence in frivolous speech not only reveals one's lack of moral character, but it deprives him of good qualities also.

We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.

There will be people who will teach for the sake of greed or for the sake of ego. So watch their lives. Do they look and act like Jesus?

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

Look at all those American preachers who got caught with their pants down. They say one thing and they are doing another. I try to be more honest about it, both in my thinking and my behavior.

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.