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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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Amber Hurdle

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go."

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Amber Hurdle

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!"

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Amber Hurdle

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

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Amber Hurdle

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

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Amber Hurdle

"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."

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Amber Hurdle

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

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Amber Hurdle

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

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

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John Boyd Orr
"In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants."

Government

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John Boyd Orr
"Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can."

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John Boyd Orr
"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."

Power

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

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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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