Aldous Huxley Quotes

In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.

Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

The psychological peer pressure that the left has employed - and deployed, actually - on young people has been overwhelmingly successful. It has created droves and droves of people that vote against what they know is right, vote against their own self-interest, in exchange for feeling good about themselves and also being immune from criticism.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

That is the way with people ... If they do you wrong, they invent a bad name for you, a good name for their acts and then destroy you in the name of virtue.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their “discernment.

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

I promise you, the next time there is attack on - an attack on this country, the first thing people are going to want to know is, why didn't we know about it and why didn't we stop it? And the answer better not be because we didn't have access to records or information that would have allowed us to identify these killers before they attacked.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

The best of women are hypocrites.

And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.

It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.