Quote #14
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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- I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
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- 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.
- Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor.
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