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John Boyd Orr Quotes: 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.
         

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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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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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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Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.



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



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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.





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