Century Quote by John Boyd Orr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— John Boyd Orr

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

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

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

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

— John Boyd Orr