Scottish - Politician | September 23, 1880 - June 25, 1971
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 they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
John Boyd Orr
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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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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.
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Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
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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.
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