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John Boyd Orr

"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law."

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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."

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"It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms."

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"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."

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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."

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"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."

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"It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints."

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"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."

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"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."

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"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."

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"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."

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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."

Nature

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John Boyd Orr
"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."

Dictatorship

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John Boyd Orr
"However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable."

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John Boyd Orr
"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."

Science

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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."

Science

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John Boyd Orr
"In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without."

History

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

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John Boyd Orr
"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."

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John Boyd Orr
"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law."

Civilization

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John Boyd Orr
"The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war."

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