John Boyd Orr
Quotations
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“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
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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
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“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
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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.” -John Boyd Orr
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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 political, economic, and social structure.” -John Boyd Orr
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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 up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.” -John Boyd Orr
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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.” -John Boyd Orr
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“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
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