"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either……" — John Boyd Orr
"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."
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28 Quotes by John Boyd Orr
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- As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on…
- After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding…
- There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities…
- In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers…
- 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…
- We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations…
- Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world…
- The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers,…
- It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that…
- As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political…
- In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole…
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