It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the… — 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
