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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 26 quotes by John Boyd Orr John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr CH, DSO, MC, FRS (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). He was the co-founder and the first President (1960–1971) of the World... Read full biography of John Boyd Orr → 1 2 Ctrl → 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... → 0 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... → 0 In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world.... → 0 Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. 0 When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. 0 Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace. 0 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. 0 Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. 0 We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no... → 0 Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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