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Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
- John Boyd Orr
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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
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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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#Propaganda
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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
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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
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#Revolution
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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#Knowledge
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
- John Boyd Orr
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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
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#Life
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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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#Peace
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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
#Airplane
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#War
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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
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#Industrial Revolution
#Wealth
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
- 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
#Communication
#Country
#Now
#Round
#Time
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
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#Possible
#Sovereignty
#World
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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