Our creative potential has many aspects, but undoubtedly the most important one is to make good use of ourselves and what we are here and now, at eac… - Laura Huxley

War is the most terrifying example of energy directed against ourselves, and yet it was a great relief for many people throughout history. War provided them with a legitimate outlet for their aggressive feelings and an escape from their boredom. Even the humblest factory job acquired a glow of righteousness and patriotism. It is sadly significant that the number of suicides always declines during a war. A nuclear war would provide none of the satisfactions of past wars-no marching, no brass bands, no heroism. Like termites fumigated in their nests, we would all be exterminated, on any side of any curtain, by a stupendous gadget paid for by our hard-earned money and of which we were supposed to be proud. This gadget is the most powerful of all man-made transformers of energy.

our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

this transformation is really the key now, isn’t it, to our living: to be able to transform. (1968)