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

Society, Civilization, Knowledge

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

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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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"What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour."

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

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"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."

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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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"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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"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."

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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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"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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"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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"During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent."

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"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."

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