In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
