« All War Quotes · John Boyd Orr's Page
War Quotes by John Boyd Orr
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 vain hope.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare