John Boyd Orr's Profile
Brief about John Boyd Orr: By info that we know John Boyd Orr was born at 1970-01-01. And also John Boyd Orr is Scottish Politician.
Some John Boyd Orr's quotes. Goto "John Boyd Orr's quotation" section for more.We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Tags: Longer, National, PossibleWhen the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
Tags: Change, Enough, SocietyThere can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
Tags: Change, Life, PeaceEmpires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Tags: Defeat, Within, WonSome wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
Tags: Defeat, Power, RevengeAfter the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
Tags: After, Problem, WarIn the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
Tags: After, Powerful, RevolutionIt is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
Tags: Fear, May, WarScience has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
Tags: Great, Science, WarWhen the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
Tags: After, Fair, RevolutionMeasured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
Tags: Country, Small, TimeNearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
Tags: Becoming, Country, NearlyOur civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Tags: Adjustment, Knowledge, SocietyOur civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Tags: Age, Between, PeaceSome think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
Tags: Hope, Might, WarThe real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
Tags: Evil, Real, SecretAs I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
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