John Boyd Orr Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
John Boyd Orr quotes and sayings page 2 (politician). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have.
“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.”
“The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.”
“Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.”
“Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.”
“The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.”
“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.”
“In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.”
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