Tag: John Boyd Orr

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society

John Boyd Orr | society

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

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science

John Boyd Orr | science

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.

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science

John Boyd Orr | science

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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science

John Boyd Orr | science

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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religion

John Boyd Orr | religion

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.

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peace

John Boyd Orr | peace

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

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peace

John Boyd Orr | peace

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.

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knowledge

John Boyd Orr | knowledge

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.

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knowledge

John Boyd Orr | knowledge

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

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knowledge

John Boyd Orr | knowledge

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.

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