8 Quotes & Sayings By John Boyd Orr

John Boyd Orr was a Scottish engineer and architect, who designed the R.M.S. Titanic. He was also a British Intelligence officer in World War I, and wrote a book called "In the Face of Terror" about his experiences there. In the 1920s he became a British intelligence officer in Germany Read more

He was an expert on German military tactics and went back to Britain as one of the few men who could speak German fluently and had intimate knowledge of German military operations. He wrote a book called "In the Face of Terror."

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