Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
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.
- When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
- Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
- It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
- Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.