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John Boyd Orr Quotes
Page 2 of 2John Boyd Orr
September 23, 1880 - June 25, 1971
Nationality: Scottish
Category: Politician
Subcategory: Scottish Politician
|  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. | | Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. | | Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. | | 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. | | 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. | | Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. |
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