Famous Quotes / Arnold J. Toynbee
9 Quotations by Arnold J. Toynbee
- 1. A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
- 2. America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
- 3. Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an id ...
- 4. Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- 5. History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
- 6. I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a pro ...
- 7. I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't bel ...
- 8. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to ...
- 9. There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that life is just one damned thing after ...