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John Boyd Orr Quotes

John Boyd Orr quotes

Scottish Politician September 23, 1880 – June 25, 1971

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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
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
John Boyd Orr quote: "Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment..."
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. 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 output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed. John Boyd Orr
John Boyd Orr quote: "The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war."
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. 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
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
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
John Boyd Orr quote: "Nearly every country in the world is now becoming..."
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. John Boyd Orr
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
John Boyd Orr quote: "Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt..."
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. John Boyd Orr

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