"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
Topic(s):
Peace
― John Boyd Orr
More From John Boyd Orr
- "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."
- "Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
- "As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies."
More In Peace
- "I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results."― Alfred Nobel
- "Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace."― Ginny Brown-Waite
- "It’s amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends."― Kirstie Alley