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John Boyd Orr has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other…
• After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to…
• There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life…
• In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the…
• The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a…
• We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no…
• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and…
• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it…
• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war…
• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to…
• In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One,…

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