All John Boyd Orr Quotes
- As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only… Airplane
- After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output… Agriculture
- There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that… Available
- 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 nature… Advanced
- The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. Been
- Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. Agreement
- We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. Absolute
- Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. Age
- The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been… All
- It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up… Destroy
- As 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
- 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,… British
- Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied… Acquired
- Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in… Both
- Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. Becoming
- If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to… Civilization
- If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches. Choose
- Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. Always Fallen
- When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth… Brought
- Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. Ago
- Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. Adjustment
- When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. Achieved
- Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former… Been
- The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. Camp
- 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… Agreed