National sovereignty Quote by John Boyd Orr

“We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.”

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Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the…

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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred…

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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

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When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the…

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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe…

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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…

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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.

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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

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Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the…

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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British…

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Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

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