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