More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

  1. Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
  2. I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
  3. Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor.
  4. I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
  5. As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. W…
  6. I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
  7. Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by stor…
  8. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at tha…

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