10 quotes found
“To be or to do? Which way will you go?”
“Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.”
“Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.”
“If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty.If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!”
“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.”
“Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.”
“It is a state of mind, a learning of the oneness of things, an appreciation for fundamental insights known in Eastern philosophy and religion as simply the Way [or Tao]. For Boyd, the Way is not an...”
“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 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 governme...”
“There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them availab...”