John Boyd Orr Citas

• 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.

  John Boyd Orr

  Believe, Long, Political

  "Peace!: By the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates : an Anthology, Page 31" by Marek Thee, Unesco Publishing, (p. 162), 1995.

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• Cuando la Revolución Industrial del siglo XIX trajo consigo un rápido aumento de la riqueza, la demanda de los trabajadores de una parte justa de la riqueza que estaban creando sólo se concedió tras disturbios y huelgas.

  John Boyd Orr

  Creating, Revolution, Demand

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• If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

  John Boyd Orr

  People, Sandwiches, Politics

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• 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

  Social Unrest, Fabric, Revolution

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• 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 and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Agriculture, World

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

  John Boyd Orr

  World, Sovereignty, Absolutes

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• Los imperios ganados por conquista siempre han caído, ya sea por revuelta interna o por derrota ante un rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Rivals, Empires, Defeat

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• Se dice que los dioses enloquecen primero a quienes quieren destruir. Es muy posible que la neurosis de guerra provocada por la propaganda del miedo y el odio sea el preludio de la destrucción.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• 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

  Powerful, War, Weapons

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• 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.

  John Boyd Orr

  Thinking, Civilization, Views

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• 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

  País, Comunicación, Años

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• Algunas guerras se han debido al ansia de poder y gloria de los gobernantes, o a la venganza para borrar la humillación de una derrota anterior.

  John Boyd Orr

  Revenge, War, Lust

  "Nobel Lectures in Peace" by Frederick W. Haberman, World Scientific, (p. 415), 1999.

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• 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

  Civilization, Unity, Age

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• 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

  Appreciate, Arms, Territory

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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Airplane, United States

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• Como he intentado demostrar, la ciencia, al producir el avión y la radio, ha creado un nuevo entorno político internacional al que los gobiernos deben ajustar su política exterior.

  John Boyd Orr

  Airplane, Government, Political

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• Algunos piensan que los peores horrores de la guerra podrían evitarse mediante un acuerdo internacional para no utilizar bombas atómicas. Es una esperanza vana.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Thinking, Agreement

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• 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.

  John Boyd Orr

  Government, Gunpowder, Warfare

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• Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.

  John Boyd Orr

  Animal, Past, Records

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

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Civilization, Intermittent

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

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  Country, World, Becoming

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• 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.

  John Boyd Orr

  Years, Lasts, Fifty

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• Nuestra civilización ha evolucionado gracias a la continua adaptación de la sociedad al estímulo de los nuevos conocimientos.

  John Boyd Orr

  Civilization, Stimulus, Adjustment

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