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> # I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

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## More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

1. > History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

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2. > I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

[Permalink to quote \#15](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee/15/ "Permalink to quote 15")
3. > Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

[Permalink to quote \#12](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee/12/ "Permalink to quote 12")

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