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The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

Aldous Huxley
Thinking, Evil, World
Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

Aldous Huxley
Evil, Mind, Prohibition
Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Aldous Huxley
Men, Evil, Would Be
Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Aldous Huxley
Evil
Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

Aldous Huxley
Sex, Evil, Addiction
Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.358, Transaction Publishers

Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

Aldous Huxley
Evil, Unity, Separateness
Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

Aldous Huxley
Men, Hypocrisy, Evil
Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley
Evil, Necessary Evil, Chaos
Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Aldous Huxley
Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher
"Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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