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John Boyd Orr

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

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Amber Hurdle

"To hold a pen is to be at war."

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Amber Hurdle

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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Amber Hurdle

"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."

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Amber Hurdle

"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."

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Amber Hurdle

"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"

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Amber Hurdle

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

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Amber Hurdle

"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."

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Amber Hurdle

"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."

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Amber Hurdle

"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."

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

Society

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John Boyd Orr
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."

Time

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John Boyd Orr
"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."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"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."

War

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John Boyd Orr
"We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible."

Nation

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John Boyd Orr
"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."

Change

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

History

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