John Boyd Orr

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 #european #globe #hundred

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#country #every #industrialized #nearly #now

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

— John Boyd Orr

#civilization #continuous #evolved #knowledge #new

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

#between #civilization #empires #new #new age

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

#both #destruction #great #neither #nor

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#atomic #atomic bombs #avoided #bombs #hope

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

#defeat #due #former #glory #humiliation

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#civilization #history #our #the history of #war

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. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#approval #arms #been #empires #force

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#communism #communist #concentration #evil #police