John Boyd Orr Quotes

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
John Boyd Orr

Life, Change, Peace

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
John Boyd Orr

Change, Society, Enough

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 of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
John Boyd Orr

War, After, Problem

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

Defeat, Won, Within

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
John Boyd Orr

Powerful, Revolution, After

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 by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
John Boyd Orr

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 destruction.
John Boyd Orr

Great, War, Science

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 defeat.
John Boyd Orr

Power, Revenge, Defeat

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
John Boyd Orr

Revolution, After, Fair

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
John Boyd Orr

Science, Political, Show

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 alternative to war is the United States of the World.
John Boyd Orr

War, Made, Small

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 were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
John Boyd Orr

War, Everything, Battle

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.
John Boyd Orr

Government, May, Law

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
John Boyd Orr

Knowledge, Law, Small

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
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Government, Whole, Times

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 nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
John Boyd Orr

Nature, Science, Last

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

Time, Country, Small

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

Country, Becoming, Nearly

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr

Society, Knowledge, Through

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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Peace, Age, Between

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

Hope, War, Might

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
John Boyd Orr

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
John Boyd Orr

Religion, Great, Power

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd Orr

Evil, Real, Secret

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
John Boyd Orr

Knowledge, Political, Social

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Politician

Born: September 23, 1880

Died: June 25, 1971

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