Becoming Quote by John Boyd Orr Download Open image “Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.” — John Boyd Orr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Country World
Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce.… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment… — Peter Dicken 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
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
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The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
