John Boyd Orr Quotes & Sayings

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26 most famous John Boyd Orr quotes and sayings (politician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

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