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.
Tags: attack, without, revolution, powerful

Other Quotes by "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.
Tags: powerful, war, great, science
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Tags: civilization, new, society, knowledge
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Tags: unity, world, age, peace
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.
Tags: mad, wish, war, fear
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
Tags: sovereignty, now, possible, world
View More by "John Boyd Orr"