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.
John Boyd OrrEmpires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd OrrThe real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd OrrIn 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.
John Boyd Orr