When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
John Boyd OrrEmpires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd OrrThe 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.
John Boyd OrrOur civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr