A biography for John Boyd Orrhasn’t been written yet.
“Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.”