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 the…

- John Boyd Orr

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

- John Boyd Orr

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no …

- John Boyd Orr

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One…

- John Boyd Orr

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

- John Boyd Orr

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

- John Boyd Orr

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

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

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

- John Boyd Orr