"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
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― John Boyd Orr
More From John Boyd Orr
- "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."
- "Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."
- "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."
More In Change
- "I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences."― Margaret J. Wheatley
- "While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change."― Max Muller
- "I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather."― Shirley Manson