15 Quotations by Arnold Toynbee
- 1. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a ...
- 2. Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall ...
- 3. Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea wh ...
- 4. As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility ...
- 5. Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- 6. Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
- 7. Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and un ...
- 8. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to ...
- 9. Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, ...
- 10. History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
- 11. It is a paradoxical, but profoundly true and important principle of life, that the most likely way t ...
- 12. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- 13. To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- 14. We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have be ...
- 15. We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our ...
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