All John Boyd Orr Quotes
- 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
- In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution… Arisen
- During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which… Area
- Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political,… Brought